Theodor W. Adorno

An Introduction
Übersetzer: Rolleston, James

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Produktbeschreibung

""Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction" is a useful survey of Adorno's thought. It is concise, written in plain language, and focused on the most important topics and themes of the theorist's work. Gerhard Schweppenhauser gives basic background about the intellectual and historical context of Adorno's thought and writings, and he makes a convincing case for the internal coherence of a complex and at times apparently heterogeneous body of work."--Uwe Steiner, Rice University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344711
• ISBN-10: 0822344718
• Artikelnr.: 25943601

Autorenporträt

Gerhard Schweppenhäuser is Professor of Design, Communication, and Media Theory at the University of Würzburg in Germany. He has written many books building on the sociocultural, analytical mission of the Frankfurt School, including two focused on Adorno. James L. Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Duke University. He has written books on Kafka, Rilke, and modern German poetry. His translation of Bernd Witte’s Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography won the German Literary Prize of the American Translators Association. His and Kai Evers’s translation of Peter Weiss’s last play, The New Trial, is also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the English Edition vii
Translator's Preface xi
1. The Project of Renewing Childhood by Transforming One's Life 1
2. Critical Theory 11
3. Reason's Self-Criticism 18
Defined Negation 20
The Two Faces of Enlightenment 26
4. Rescuing What is Beyond Hope 34
Philosophy from the Perspective of Redemption 34
Primacy of the Object 38
5. The Totally Socialized Society 51
The Concept of Society 52
Liquidation of the Individual 58
Critical Theory on Morality 68
6. The Goal of the Emancipated Society 77
7. The Powerless Utopia of Beauty 91
The Destruction and Salvation of Art 93
The Silence of Music 102
The Transition from Art to Knowledge 109
Theorizing Art and Culture in the Institute for Social Research 112
Benjamin and Kracauer: Theorizing Mass Art 120
Anarchistic and Bourgeois Romanticism: Adorno's Critique of Benjamin 125
The Work of Art and the Concept of Truth 128
8. The Failure of Culture 136
The Radically Pathetic and Guilty Culture 137
Enlightenment as Mass Deception 144
Biographical Timeline 159
Notes 163
Bibliography 171
Index 179