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Philip Hogh (Institut für Philosophie der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) has written us letting us know that a translation of his 2015 book, Kommunikation und Ausdruck: Sprachphilosophie nach Adorno (which we’d written about here) is now available in English through Rowman & Littlefield’s Founding Critical Theory series. You can find more information on the book here, and here is the publisher’s blurb for the book:

The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno’s philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy. Yet Adorno’s own philosophy of language has not yet been fully and systematically examined in its own right. Philip Hogh argues that it was in fact the linguistic turn in critical theory that prevented a thorough analysis of Adorno’s philosophy of language. Here he reconstructs Adorno’s philosophy of language and presents it as a coherent theory that demands to be understood as an important contribution to contemporary linguistic philosophy. By analysing all the key concepts in Adorno’s thought (subjectivity, epistemology, social theory and aesthetics), and comparing them to Robert Brandom’s material inferentialism, John McDowell’s theory of conceptual experience and Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, this book presents Adorno’s theory as an important contribution to contemporary philosophy of language in its own right.