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Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Culture | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
The most important aesthetics of the century, this is a long-awaited work, the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Among the twelve major sections are Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; Towards a Theory ...Show more
Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultura ...Show more
Aesthetics by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Culture
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's greatest works. The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work of Georg Lukacs to a sus ...Show more
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
Category: Art and Design
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno; Walter Benjamin; Ernst Bloch; Bertolt Brecht; Georg Lukacs
Category: Philosophy and Religion
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which ...Show more
An Introduction to Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno concentrates on the most systematic development of the dialectic in H ...Show more
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Languages and Reference
On 6 April 1967, at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture which is not merely of historical interest. Against the background of the rise of the National Democratic Party of Germany, which had enjoyed remarkable electoral success ...Show more
Correspondence, 1939 - 1969 by Theodor W. Adorno; Gershom Scholem; Sebastian Truskolaski (Translator); Paula Schwebel (Translator); Asaf Angermann (Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno's critical social theory and Gershom Scholem's scholarship of Jewish mysticism could not seem farther removed from one another. To begin with, they also harbored a mutual hostility. But their first conversations in 1938 New York were the impetus for a profound intellec ...Show more
Minima Moralia - Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism. This is Adorno's theoretical and literary masterpiece ...Show more
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A classic of twentieth century thought, this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.