Adorno’s writing is notoriously difficult. This Routledge Critical Thinkers guide gives the reader the tools required to interpret Adorno’s major works, whilst also introducing his interpretation of classical German philosophy…

A lucid account of Theodor Adorno’s perspectives on major components of sociology, including empirical and theoretical research. Matthias Benzer discusses several of Adorno’s inquiries into specific sociological topics including sexual…

Adorno have an impact on disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, musicology and literary theory. This book serves as a guide through the labyrinth of Adorno’s work…

Covering the period of the Frankfurt School’s exile in the United States, this book examines how the critique of racism, authoritarianism, and hard-right agitation impacted the American and German individual’s…

This set charts the most important moments in the international reception of Adorno’s thinking, covering the wide range of disciplines his studies touched upon, including literary criticism, music- ology, aesthetics…

In this text, Theodor Adorno, a foremost thinker of the Frankfurt school of critical theory, analyzes the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful, demonstrating that such concepts distil human experience.

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…

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…