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Theodor W. Adorno
Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adornoa s intellectual world. Yet although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl and Kierkegaard, the closest he came to an extended discussion of Kant…
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Despite all of humanity’s failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for…
Theodor W. Adorno,Thomas Mann
* The correspondence of Theodor Adorno and Thomas Mann documents a rare encounter of creative tension between literary tradition and aesthetic modernism spanning the years 1943-1955. * The letters offer…
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This volume comprises Adorno’s first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times.
Originally published: Ontologie und Dialektik, 1960-61. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2002.
Adorno regarded Heidegger as a limited, dangerous thinker. In these lectures, he highlights his fixation with ontology to show that the doctrine of being can only be understood through dialectical…
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…
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Goethe, and Benjamin, as well as his reflections on…
This text analyzes Mahler’s music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. It examines the composer’s works as a continuous and unified development…
Sebastian Polmans
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Universitaet Siegen (Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was Kunst ist und was sie bedeutet, unterliegt einem stetigen historischen Wandel…
Ansgar Martins
Ansgar Martins’s The Migration of Metaphysics into the Realm of the Profane is the first book-length study focusing on Adorno’s idiosyncratic appropriation of Jewish mysticism in the light of his…
Karl-Heinz Mayer
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: 1,0, Universitat Wien (Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Adorno und Benjamin: Schriften zur Literatur und Sprachtheorie, Sprache…
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Theodor Adorno
Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music…
Bryan L. Wagoner
Draws numerous, yet previously unknown, connections between Paul Tillich, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer during their shared years in Frankfurt and New York, focusing particularly on the years 1929-1944. Instead…
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A collection of 33 essays reflecting the role of music in German theories of national identity and the importance of music theory in German thought. Includes essays by Thomas Mann…
Dirk Schuck
Baustein fr Baustein fhrt der Autor in die historische Genese und inhaltliche Problematik der Verdinglichungskritik ein, die mit Georg Lukcs ihren Anfang nahm und der kritischen Theorie Adornos ihren bisherigen…
Provides both a reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno’s critical theory. The studies focus on the relationship of reason, the individual and society in Hegel; examine…
In 1947, Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy…
* A major new book in the Polity series of publications which make available Adorno’s previously unpublished writings. * This volume comprises some of Adorno’s most important writings on music…
TW Adorno
This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958/59, formed the foundation for his later text Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of Adorno…
Katrin Haase
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Musikwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universitat Leipzig, Veranstaltung: Hoerkonzepte in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit dem Aufkommen…
Johann Dvorak,Johann Dvoerak
Der Kampf um die Moderne war im Wien der vergangenen Jahrhundertwende ein Feld der politischen Auseinandersetzung in der Sphare der Kultur. Die enge Verbundenheit von Kunst, asthetischer Theorie und Politik…
David Liese
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: 1,0, Universitat Regensburg (Institut fur Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Philosophie als Zeitkritik: Heidegger - Adorno -…
Lecture course by Adorno focusing on Kantian categories of moral philosophy.
This book collects together Adornos manifold implications for musical interpretation. His reflections lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. However, it is the quality…
Combines into a single volume, two of Adorno’s most important postwar works - Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). This book reflects the intellectually provocative…
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…
"In the context of the series of Nachgelassene Schriften which is published by the Theordor W. Adorno Archiv in Frankfurt, since 2003...the lecture course Philosophy and Sociology.. is the first…
Lectures from 1968 forming an ideal introduction to Adorno’s work in sociology.
Verso’s classic Mapping series, published in association with New Left Review, collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world and delineates the controversies among the most…
Oliver Steinhoff
Walsers Protagonisten zeugen von der Unmoeglichkeit einer eigenen Identitat. Die Verweigerung gesellschaftlich bestimmten Bewusstseins und Rollenverhaltens spiegelt die Sehnsucht nach einem anderen Leben, das es im leistungsorientierten System nicht geben…
TW Adorno,Gershom Scholem
Thirty years of epistolary friendship between two towering figures of the 20th century –
Katharina Eberlein-Braun
Revised thesis (doctoral) - Universit'at, Marburg, 2011.
Die Arbeit hat zum Ziel, aus dem umfangreichen Werk Adornos einige Aufsatze herauszugreifen, daraus einen Eindruck seines Denkens uber Musik und Kulturindustrie zu destillieren und diesen aus der Sekundarliteratur mit…
Presents a study of key musical works of the twentieth century. Here, the author brings a range of social and cultural questions to bear on the analysis of two composers…
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Theodor W. Adorno,Walter Benjamin
The correspondence between Adorno and Walter Benjamin, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down…
Theodor W. Adorno,Alban Berg
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A psychoanalytically informed analysis of the rhetorical and conceptual mechanisms with which postwar Germans most often denied responsibility for the Nazi past. It provides important perspectives on postwar German political…