Gerhard Schweppenhäuser

Theodor W. Adorno

An Introduction
Übersetzer: Rolleston, James

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to the work of Adorno, covering virtually all aspects of his thought but particularly the foundational concepts of epistemological, social, and political theory, translated from the German version that will go into its fourth edition this

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344544
• ISBN-10: 0822344548
• Artikelnr.: 25866958

Autorenporträt

Gerhard Schweppenhäuser

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