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Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin
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Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Carl Djerassi


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Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno were intellectual giants of the first half of the twentieth century. The drama Foreplay explores their deeply human and psychologically intriguing private lives, focusing on professional and personal jealousies, the mutual dislike of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt, the association between Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille, and the border between erotica and pornography.

Djerassi's extensive biographical research brings to light many fascinating details revealed in the dialogues among the characters, including Adorno's obsession with his dreams, Benjamin's admiration for Franz Kafka, and the intimate correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin. The introduction of a fictitious character, Frulein X, intensifies the complex interplay among the four lead protagonists and allows for a comparison of Adorno's philandering and the similar behavior of Martin Heidegger, whose affair with Hannah Arendt is well known. Foreplay brims with intrigue and the friction created when strong personalities clash.

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  • Title Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin
  • Author Carl Djerassi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
  • Date 2011-03
  • ISBN 9780299283346 / 0299283348
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5 x 0.3 in (19.81 x 12.70 x 0.76 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Critical Theory
  • Library of Congress subjects Interpersonal relations, Adorno, Theodor W.
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010046467
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

About the author

Carl Djerassi (1923-2015) was the author of many novels, plays, essays, poetry, and short stories published in twenty languages. Renowned as both a writer and a scientist, he was an emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University and the recipient of thirty honorary doctorates as well as many international scientific honors. His books published by the University of Wisconsin Press are: How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship; Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin; Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction: ? "ICSI" and "Taboos"; and A Diary of Pique 1983-1984 / Ein Tagebuch des Grolls 1983-1984.


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