The Disposition of the Subject: Reading Adorno's Dialectic of Technology (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)

The unprecedented mass manipulation, mass death, and trauma of World War II created a heightened interest in technology and totalitarianism among European and American intellectuals. The Disposition of the Subject explores Theodor Adorno's attempt to hinder further atrocity through philosophical analysis of technology and of its contribution to totalitarianisms of various kinds: political, aesthetic, epistemological.