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Theodor W. Adorno
This Book, provides an invaluable introduction to his historical and conceptual engagement with sociology.
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This is a study of Beethoven’s music, written by an important thinker of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven’s…
This volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno’s major work, Negative Dialectics. These lectures focus on developing the concepts critical…
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* These letters offer the reader a fascinating insight into the life of one the most important figures of twentieth-century intellectual life. * The letters touch upon issues of great…
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* Adorno is one of the most important social thinkers and philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the Frankfurt School. * This is…
Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared…
First published in German as Philosophische Elemente einer Theorie Der Gesellschaft, 1964.
Available in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by social philosopher and critic, T.W. Adorno, on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried…
This text on aesthetics includes major sections on: Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; and Towards a Theory of…
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The major work and Adorno’s culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author’s own vision of…
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno,Thomas Mann
Sans doute le diable a-t-il organise la rencontre de Thomas Mann et du philosophe Theodor W. Adorno, sans laquelle il eut rate son retour litteraire en plein XXe siecle. Le…
Peter Uwe Hohendahl
A leading figure in the Frankfurt School of philosophers from the 1930s through the time of his death in 1969, Adorno was the author of influential philosophical and sociological works…
In Aesthetic Theory, Theodor W. Adorno laid out the final aesthetics of modernity, which, at the same time, is a reflection on the societal conditions of art after Auschwitz. The…
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Vincenzo Rosito
Minima moralia e un libro fondamentale per la ricostruzione del dibattito filosofico e culturale del Novecento. I suoi aforismi hanno alimentato appassionate discussioni nel mondo accademico, politico e sociale. Adorno…
Katharina J?ger
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Allgemeines und Grundlagen, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll der Versuch unternommen werden ein m?glichst…
Matt F. Connell
This work provides an introduction to the work of the German theorist Theodor Adorno, a leading member of the Frankfurt school who was forced into exile by the Nazis. It…
Adorno’s study of Alban Berg is part of music history, a personal account, by a philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend, and composition…
Theodor W Adorno
Die Textkritische Edition prasentiert rund 230 Typoskripte und Manuskripte, die Theodor W. Adornos letzten bekannten Arbeitsgang am III. Kapitel der Fragment gebliebenen >AEsthetischen Theorie
Available in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by the social philosopher and critic on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer…
Stefano Petrucciani
The second is devoted to the main themes of Adorno’s social theory: the concept of domination, the relationship with Marxism, the theory of the decay of the individual, the critique…
Detlev Claussen
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…
Andrew Bowie (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway University of London)
Adorno was a German philosopher, and social and cultural theorist whose work is seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society. This book considers his life and…
Elisabeth Lenk,Theodor W. Adorno Adorno
Now appearing in English for the first time, the correspondence between philosopher Theodor W. Adorno and his graduate student Elisabeth Lenk provides a rich mine of critical material for reassessing…
Costa Jean Henrique
Este livro nasceu do intuito de sistematizacao de tres textos ja publicados, respectivamente, nos anos de 2012, 2013 e 2014, nas revistas Trilhas Filosoficas (UERN), Trans/Form/Acao (UNESP) e Turydes (EUMED)…
Gillian Rose
Presents a critique of critical theory.
This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno’s finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno’s thoughts on culture.
Adorno
A prescient analysis of the sources of right-wing radicalism by one of the greatest social and political thinkers of our time –
Adriano Januario
Written by Horkheimer and Adorno in exile, the Dialectic of Enlightenment investigates the failure of human liberation and the erection of new forms of domination. For the first time, this…
Deborah Cook
Adorno viewed mass culture as commodified - produced to be sold on the market and without aesthetic value. Here, Deborah Cook critically examines this view and argues that even in…
Robert Hullot-Kentor
Theodor W Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate…
Theodor Adorno
What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the Western legacy of positivity , the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. This text anatomizes the range of Adorno’s concerns, including…
Max Horkheimer,Theodor Adorno
A classic of twentieth-century thought, charting how reason regressed back into myth and superstition
An analysis of the controversial composer’s oeuvre. Part of Radical Thinkers series, it combines the brilliant exponent of Frankfurt School Marxism with aesthetics and ideology. It comes with an introduction…
T Adorno
* This is a re-issue of a classic book by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. * While written as a critique of Husserl’s phenomenology, this book…
* This is a re-issue of a classic book by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. * While written as a critique of Husserl s phenomenology, this…
Jorg Klitscher
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 2,0, Freie Universitat Berlin (Otto Suhr Institut), Veranstaltung: UEbung 15274: Vor dem Journalismus: Medientheorie, Sprache: Deutsch…
Cernec Martina
Theodor W. Adorno galt als einer der bedeutendsten Intellektuellen des vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Neben seiner Tatigkeit als Komponist war er Philosoph und Gesellschaftskritiker. In eine Zeit hineingeboren, die man als Moderne…
W. Adorno Theodor,Torr Zoltan,Landmann Michael
The Frankfurt School refers to a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory particular established at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, Germany in 1923
Miriam Hansen
Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a…
A volume of essays on music by Theodor Adorno, one of this century’s most influential thinkers. The volume includes pieces on prominent figures in music, compositional technique and larger questions…