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Negative Dialectics by Adorno Theodor W
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Negative Dialectics Ser.
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 dialectics.
Night Music by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\German List Ser.
Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicolo ...Show more
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962 by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: SB-The German List
Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicologi ...Show more
Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno; Paul Kottman (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities of bo ...Show more
Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
In this classic work of music theory Adorno critiques two major composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, who he presents as dialectically opposed to one another in terms of their musical styles, techniques and directions. Adorno's readings, especially of Schoenberg, continue to cause controvers ...Show more
Quasi Una Fantasia by ADORNO THEODOR W
Category: Film | Series: Radical Thinkers
Quasi una Fantasia contains Adorno's own selection from his essays and journalism over more than three decades. In its analytical profundity it can be compared to his Philosophy of Modern Music, but in the range of its topics and the clarity of its arguments it stands alone among Adorno's writings on mu ...Show more
The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor W. Adorno; Else Frenkel-Brunswik; Daniel J. Levinson; R. Nevitt Sanford
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Hugely influential study of the psychology of authoritarianism What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality is not only one of the most significant works of social psychology ever written, it also marks a mileston ...Show more
The Culture Industry - Selected essays on mass culture by Theodor W. Adorno; J. M. Bernstein (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparall ...Show more
The Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticityhe gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language, he calls into question the jargon, ...Show more
Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor W. Adorno; Max Horkheimer
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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Without Model - Parva Aesthetica by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\German List Ser.
Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premise of the title as his guiding principle, that artistic and philosophical thought must eschew preconcep ...Show more