Lambert Zuidervaart
Biographic Data
| ID | 457923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lambert Zuidervaart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lambert |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuidervaart |
| SIGNATURE | ZUIDERVAART L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth
"An elusive and complex idea of truth lies at the center of Theodor Adorno's thought. Yet he never spells out what it is. Through close readings of Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory, and related course lectures, Lambert Zuidervaart reconstructs Adorno's conception of truth, contrasts it with the conceptions of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, and explores its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics. Adorno regards truth …
Social Domains of Truth: Science, Politics, Art, and Religion
Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School: Critical Retrieval
An innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth. The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart examines debates surrounding the idea of truth in twentieth-century German continental philosophy. He argues that the Heideggerian …
Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Reformational philosophy rests on the ideas of nineteenth-century educator, church leader, and politician Abraham Kuyper, and it emerged in the early twentieth century among Reformed Protestant thinkers in the Netherlands. Combining comprehensive criticisms of Western philosophy with robust proposals for a just society, it calls on members of religious communities to transform harmful cultural practices, social institutions, and societal structur…
Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Creating a Disturbance: Art, Social Ethics, and Relational Autonomy
This article argues that good art is intrinsically ethical, and, precisely because of this intrinsic ethicality, the arts can contribute to other modes of ethical conduct, including politics. In making this argument, I aim to mediate and move beyond the polarity between Adornian negativity and Habermasian affirmation. The argument requires a new account of art's autonomy as relational and as consisting of three closely interlinked forms: interper…
Critical transformations: Macrostructures, religion, and critique
Can critical research on religion offer both an ideology critique and a critical retrieval of religious import? This article suggests that it can, offering a programmatic sketch for a full-fledged critique of religion-a critique both aimed at religion and inspired by religion in a self-critical fashion. The sketch weds elements of a robustly normative critique of Western society with insights derived from the Frankfurt School. First the article m…
Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture
This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily life? Do artists and their publics have a social responsibility? Challenging questionable assumptions about the state, the arts and a democratic society, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a vigorous case for government funding, based on crucial contributions the arts make to civil society. He ar…
Social Philosophy after Adorno
Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno's successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno's central insights on the negative effects of capitalism and new technologies upon nature and human life. Zuidervaart reclaims A…
Social philosophy after Adorno
Cultural Paths and Aesthetic Signs: A Critical Hermeneutics of Aesthetic Validity
Contemporary philosophical stances toward `artistic truth' derive from Kant's aesthetics. Whereas philosophers who share Kant's emphasis on aesthetic validity discount art's capacity for truth, philosophers who share Hegel's critique of Kant render artistic truth inaccessible. This essay proposes a critical hermeneutic account of aesthetic validity that supports a non-esoteric notion of artistic truth. Using Gadamer and Adorno to read Kant throug…
Art, truth and vocation: Validity and disclosure in Heidegger’s anti-aesthetics
A central point of contention between Critical Theory and Heideggerian thinking concerns the question of truth. Whereas Martin Heidegger orients his conception of truth towards the ongoing disclosure of Being, Jürgen Habermas regards truth as one dimension of validity in ‘communicative action’. Unlike Habermas, who usually emphasizes validity at the expense of disclosure, Heidegger tends to emphasize disclosure at the expense of validity. The ess…
The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy
This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors ask about the future of viable communities and democratic c
The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Mimesis and mimetology - Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe, Martin Jay Aesthetic Theory's mimesis of Walter Benjamin, Shierry Weber Nicholsen Benjamin, Adorno, surrealism, Richard Wolin concept, image, name - on Adorno's Utopia of Knowledge, Rolf Teidemann concerning the central idea of Adorno's philosophy, Rudiger Bubner why rescue semblance? metaphysical experience and the possibilities of ethics, J.M. Bernstein Adorno's notion of natural beauty - a r…
The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Theodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philosophers have been as well versed in contemporary art, especially music, as Adorno, and even fewer have written so much that is of interest to the social sciences. Yet only recently have his aesthetic writings begun to receive sustained attention in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays is an important cont…
Under the Sign of Adorno
Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media
The authors offer an insightful analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the popular entertainment industry and America's youth, suggest principles for evaluating popular art and entertainment, and propose strategies for rebuilding strong local cultures in the face of global media giants.
Adorno's Aesthetic theory: The Redemption of Illusion
Cultural Paths and Aesthetic Signs: A Critical Hermeneutics of Aesthetic Validity
Contemporary philosophical stances toward `artistic truth' derive from Kant's aesthetics. Whereas philosophers who share Kant's emphasis on aesthetic validity discount art's capacity for truth, philosophers who share Hegel's critique of Kant render artistic truth inaccessible. This essay proposes a critical hermeneutic account of aesthetic validity that supports a non-esoteric notion of artistic truth. Using Gadamer and Adorno to read Kant throug…
Art, truth and vocation: Validity and disclosure in Heidegger’s anti-aesthetics
A central point of contention between Critical Theory and Heideggerian thinking concerns the question of truth. Whereas Martin Heidegger orients his conception of truth towards the ongoing disclosure of Being, Jürgen Habermas regards truth as one dimension of validity in ‘communicative action’. Unlike Habermas, who usually emphasizes validity at the expense of disclosure, Heidegger tends to emphasize disclosure at the expense of validity. The ess…
Adorno's Aesthetic theory: The Redemption of Illusion
Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media
The authors offer an insightful analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the popular entertainment industry and America's youth, suggest principles for evaluating popular art and entertainment, and propose strategies for rebuilding strong local cultures in the face of global media giants.
Under the Sign of Adorno
The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Theodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philosophers have been as well versed in contemporary art, especially music, as Adorno, and even fewer have written so much that is of interest to the social sciences. Yet only recently have his aesthetic writings begun to receive sustained attention in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays is an important cont…
The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Mimesis and mimetology - Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe, Martin Jay Aesthetic Theory's mimesis of Walter Benjamin, Shierry Weber Nicholsen Benjamin, Adorno, surrealism, Richard Wolin concept, image, name - on Adorno's Utopia of Knowledge, Rolf Teidemann concerning the central idea of Adorno's philosophy, Rudiger Bubner why rescue semblance? metaphysical experience and the possibilities of ethics, J.M. Bernstein Adorno's notion of natural beauty - a r…
The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy
This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors ask about the future of viable communities and democratic c
Art, truth and vocation: Validity and disclosure in Heidegger’s anti-aesthetics
A central point of contention between Critical Theory and Heideggerian thinking concerns the question of truth. Whereas Martin Heidegger orients his conception of truth towards the ongoing disclosure of Being, Jürgen Habermas regards truth as one dimension of validity in ‘communicative action’. Unlike Habermas, who usually emphasizes validity at the expense of disclosure, Heidegger tends to emphasize disclosure at the expense of validity. The ess…
Cultural Paths and Aesthetic Signs: A Critical Hermeneutics of Aesthetic Validity
Contemporary philosophical stances toward `artistic truth' derive from Kant's aesthetics. Whereas philosophers who share Kant's emphasis on aesthetic validity discount art's capacity for truth, philosophers who share Hegel's critique of Kant render artistic truth inaccessible. This essay proposes a critical hermeneutic account of aesthetic validity that supports a non-esoteric notion of artistic truth. Using Gadamer and Adorno to read Kant throug…
Social Philosophy after Adorno
Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno's successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno's central insights on the negative effects of capitalism and new technologies upon nature and human life. Zuidervaart reclaims A…
Social philosophy after Adorno
Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture
This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily life? Do artists and their publics have a social responsibility? Challenging questionable assumptions about the state, the arts and a democratic society, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a vigorous case for government funding, based on crucial contributions the arts make to civil society. He ar…
Critical transformations: Macrostructures, religion, and critique
Can critical research on religion offer both an ideology critique and a critical retrieval of religious import? This article suggests that it can, offering a programmatic sketch for a full-fledged critique of religion-a critique both aimed at religion and inspired by religion in a self-critical fashion. The sketch weds elements of a robustly normative critique of Western society with insights derived from the Frankfurt School. First the article m…
Creating a Disturbance: Art, Social Ethics, and Relational Autonomy
This article argues that good art is intrinsically ethical, and, precisely because of this intrinsic ethicality, the arts can contribute to other modes of ethical conduct, including politics. In making this argument, I aim to mediate and move beyond the polarity between Adornian negativity and Habermasian affirmation. The argument requires a new account of art's autonomy as relational and as consisting of three closely interlinked forms: interper…
Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Reformational philosophy rests on the ideas of nineteenth-century educator, church leader, and politician Abraham Kuyper, and it emerged in the early twentieth century among Reformed Protestant thinkers in the Netherlands. Combining comprehensive criticisms of Western philosophy with robust proposals for a just society, it calls on members of religious communities to transform harmful cultural practices, social institutions, and societal structur…
Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School: Critical Retrieval
An innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth. The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart examines debates surrounding the idea of truth in twentieth-century German continental philosophy. He argues that the Heideggerian …
Social Domains of Truth: Science, Politics, Art, and Religion
Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth
"An elusive and complex idea of truth lies at the center of Theodor Adorno's thought. Yet he never spells out what it is. Through close readings of Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory, and related course lectures, Lambert Zuidervaart reconstructs Adorno's conception of truth, contrasts it with the conceptions of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, and explores its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics. Adorno regards truth …
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works)