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Theodor W. Adorno
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…
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In this remarkable work written 50 years ago, Adorno showcases the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption.
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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)…
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Gillian Rose
Presents a critique of critical theory.
Adriano Januario
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…
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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…
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…
Adorno
A prescient analysis of the sources of right-wing radicalism by one of the greatest social and political thinkers of our time –
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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…
Theodor W Adorno
Collected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts in Night Music show the breadth of Adorno’s musical understanding and reveal an overlooked side to this…
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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…
Walter Benjamin,Theodor W. Adorno
The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. * This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. *…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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* 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…
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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…
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…
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…
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.