Theodor W. Adorno [electronic resource] : an introduction / Gerhard Schweppenhäuser ; translated by James Rolleston.
A translation of a succinct introduction to the challenging and far-reaching thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the twentieth century s most important thinkers.
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| Other title: | Theodor W. Adorno zur Einführung. English |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the English edition
- Translator's preface
- The project of renewing childhood by transforming one's life
- Critical theory
- Reason's self-criticism
- Defined negation
- The two faces of enlightenment
- Rescuing what is beyond hope
- Philosophy from the perspective of redemption
- Primacy of the object
- The totally socialized society
- The concept of society
- Liquidation of the individual
- Critical theory on morality
- The goal of the emancipated society
- The powerless utopia of beauty
- The destruction and salvation of art
- The silence of music
- The transition from art to knowledge
- Theorizing art and culture in the institute for social research
- Benjamin and kracauer: theorizing mass art
- Anarchistic and bourgeois romanticism: Adorno's critique of Benjamin
- The work of art and the concept of truth
- The failure of culture
- The radically pathetic and guilty culture
- Enlightenment as mass deception
- Biographical timeline.