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Author | : Brian O'Connor |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2000-04-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631210764 |
This superb volume brings together for the first time the essential readings selections from Adorno's multidisciplinary work. It will be valuable to readers at various levels as it makes available Adorno material which previously was either difficult to access or was presented in a form which was intimidating.
Author | : Theodor W. Adorno |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780804731447 |
This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the "Western legacy of positivity,” the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. The prime task of philosophy then remains to reflect on its own failure, its own complicity in such events. Yet in linking the question of philosophy to historical occurrence, Adorno seems not to have abandoned his paradoxical, life-long hope that philosophy might not be entirely closed to the idea of redemption. He prepares for an altogether different praxis, one no longer conceived in traditionally Marxist terms but rather to be gleaned from "metaphysical experience.” In this collection, Adorno's literary executor has assembled the definitive introduction to his thinking. Its five sections anatomize the range of Adorno's concerns: "Toward a New Categorical Imperative,” "Damaged Life,” "Administered World, Reified Thought,” "Art, Memory of Suffering,” and "A Philosophy That Keeps Itself Alive.” A substantial number of Adorno’s writings included appear here in English for the first time. This collection comes with an eloquent introduction from Rolf Tiedemann, the literary executor of Adorno’s work.
Author | : Nigel C. Gibson |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2002-01-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631212492 |
Adorno: A Critical Reader presents a collection of new essays by many of the world's top critics that examine Adorno's lasting impact on the arts, politics, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.
Author | : Gerhard Schweppenhäuser |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2009-04-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0822390728 |
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sought to evaluate and synthesize the essential insights of Western philosophy by revisiting the ethical and sociological arguments of his predecessors: Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Marx. This book, first published in Germany in 1996, provides a succinct introduction to Adorno’s challenging and far-reaching thought. Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, a leading authority on the Frankfurt School of critical theory, explains Adorno’s epistemology, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, and theory of culture. After providing a brief overview of Adorno’s life, Schweppenhäuser turns to the theorist’s core philosophical concepts, including post-Kantian critique, determinate negation, and the primacy of the object, as well as his view of the Enlightenment as a code for world domination, his diagnosis of modern mass culture as a program of social control, and his understanding of modernist aesthetics as a challenge to conceive an alternative politics. Along the way, Schweppenhäuser illuminates the works widely considered Adorno’s most important achievements: Minima Moralia, Dialectic of Enlightenment (co-authored with Horkheimer), and Negative Dialectics. Adorno wrote much of the first two of these during his years in California (1938–49), where he lived near Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, whom he assisted with the musical aesthetics at the center of Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus.
Author | : Brian O'Connor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0415367352 |
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. In this lucid and comprehensive introduction, Brian O'Connor explains Adorno's philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Essential reading for students of philosophy, sociology and literature.
Author | : David Cunningham |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2009-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826403689 |
First book to provide a comprehensive account of Adorno's aesthetic theory in relation to literature, now available in paperback.
Author | : Stephen Duncombe |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781859846599 |
From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon. This expansive and carefully crafted reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance. With concise, illuminating introductions throughout, it presents a range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary debate, and includes a number of new activist authors published here for the first time. Cultural Resistance Reader is both an invaluable scholarly resource and a tool for political activists. But most importantly it will inspire everyday readers to resist.
Author | : Detlev Claussen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674029593 |
This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno’s day—and its ongoing importance in our own.
Author | : Theodor W. Adorno |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : 9780710092045 |
Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.
Author | : Deborah Cook |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317492986 |
Adorno continues to have an impact on disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, musicology and literary theory. An uncompromising critic, even as Adorno contests many of the premises of the philosophical tradition, he also reinvigorates that tradition in his concerted attempt to stem or to reverse potentially catastrophic tendencies in the West. This book serves as a guide through the intricate labyrinth of Adorno's work. Expert contributors make Adorno accessible to a new generation of readers without simplifying his thought. They provide readers with the key concepts needed to decipher Adorno's often daunting books and essays.