The downfall of the systematic philosophies has raised the question of how to reconcile the radical critique of traditional forms of representation with a new need for form. This book compares the thinking of Nietzsche and Adorno along the axes of music, style, and language critique in order to reconstruct an “aesthetics of form” common to both, which proves to be an alternative to conventional twentieth-century philosophies of language.

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