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Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader
Theodor W. AdornoThis is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century.
Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts
Deborah CookA good biography of Adorno available in English is Stefan Müller-Doohm's Adorno: A Biography (2005). 3. Müller-Doohm, Adorno, 177. 4. Wiggerhaus, The Frankfurt School, 128. 5. Ibid., 110. 6. Adorno revised this undefended thesis on ...
"Durchaus rhapsodisch". Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno: Das ...
PreviewLevin, Walter [im Gespräch mit Robert Spruytenburg]: »Theodor W. Adorno«, in: Robert Spruytenburg: Das LaSalle-Quartett. Gespräche mit Walter Levin, München 2011, S. 332–335. Metzger, Heinz-Klaus und Rainer Riehn: Theodor W .
Aesthetic Theory
Theodor W. AdornoAdorno's magnum opus, in which he summarises his life's thinking on concepts of beauty, the ugly and the sublime.
Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction
Gerhard SchweppenhäuserThis book, first published in Germany in 1996, provides a succinct introduction to Adorno’s challenging and far-reaching thought.
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature."--Susan Sontag
Philosophy of Modern Music
Theodor W. AdornoA landmark work from the founder of the Frankfurt School. A key work in the study of Adorno, of interest to students and general readers alike.
Introduction to Sociology
Theodor W. AdornoThis surprising volume is a wonderful antidote to the impression that the Frankfurt School opposed empirical research. . . . This brief work is thick with implications for the discipline of sociology, which Adorno fundamentally rethinks.
Adorno Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Geoff BoucherThis book challenges this popular image and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed authentic art could save the world.Adorno Reframed is not only a comprehensive introduction to the reader coming to Adorno for the first ...
Negative Dialectics
Theodor W. AdornoThis book seeks to free dialectics from such affirmative traits without reducing its determinacy.
Prisms
Theodor W. AdornoThe eminent critic and scholar analyzes a wide range of topics, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, jazz, the music of Bach, and museums
In Search of Wagner
Theodor W. AdornoThis new edition includes a lengthy foreword by Slavoj Zizek, entitled "Why is Wagner worth saving?"
Adorno: A Biography
Stefan Muller-DoohmMüller-Doohm's clear prose succeeds in making accessible some of the most complex areas of Adorno's thought. This outstanding biography will be the standard work on Adorno for years to come.
Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject
Preview11 Jamie Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014). Theodor W. Adorno , Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sanford, The ...
Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics: Hermes, Trickster, Fool
M. GrauAdorno 39.Theodor andMax Horkheimer, Dialectic ofEnlightenment (Stanford, CA: University Stanford Press,2002),1. 40.See David Introduction to Hermeneutics (Louisville, KY: Jasper,A Short Westminster JohnKnox, 2004). 41. JamesL. Kugel ...
Theory Trading Cards
David GauntlettSet of cards featuring 21 social and cultural theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Marcel ...
Theodor Herzl: if you will it, it is not a dream
Theodor Herzlif you will it, it is not a dream Theodor Herzl, Bonni-Dara Michaels, Yeshiva University. ... Theater Program: Dori: A New Musical Book and lyrics by Eric Blau Music by Elliot Weiss Toronto, Leah Posluns Theatre Oct. 17 - November 9, 1984 1 1 ...
Modernism and Opera
PreviewAdorno, Theodor W. “Richard Strauss at Sixty.” Richard Strauss and His World. Ed. Bryan Gilliam. Trans. Susan Gillespie. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992. 406– 15. ———. “Social Character.” In Search of Wagner. Trans. Rodney Livingstone.
Portable Altamont
Brian Joseph DavisFor several years artist Brian Joseph Davis has created deceptive 0lms, writings and projects. He was called a 'genius' by Alex Ross of The New Yorker for turning the writings of philosopher Theodor Adorno into a punk rock seven-inch.
The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America
Johannes von MoltkeSee also Robert Sitton, Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). 24. Miriam Bratu Hansen, Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno ( Berkeley: ...
Adorno and Literature
PreviewFirst book to provide a comprehensive account of Adorno's aesthetic theory in relation to literature, now available in paperback.
Béla Bartók: A Research and Information Guide
Elliott AntokoletzDavid E. Schneider and Klára Móricz). Part III, Writings About Bartók, includes: “ Recollections of Béla Bartók” (trans. Peter Laki and Balázs Dibuz); Edwin von der Nüll, “A Change in Style” (trans. Susan Gillespie); Theodor Adorno, “Bartók's ...
Cosmopolitanism and Translation: Investigations Into the ...
Esperanca Bielsa1 Similarly, Stefan Müller-Doohm's authoritative biography of Adorno is entitled, in its Spanish edition, En tierra de nadie (In No Man's Land), overemphasising and decontextualising a view expressed by the author that 'Adorno succeeded in ...
The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, ...
Anna BrickhouseAdorno 2008, 24. 36. Adorno 2008, 25. 37. Thanks to Bianca Premo for pointing out that what Fontaneda is suggesting here is essentially the Portuguese feitoria model—a coastal fortress used for trade and protection from rivals—as opposed ...
Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru
Rolena AdornoIn a new, lengthy introduction to this second edition, Adorno shows how recent scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives sheds new light on Guaman Poma and his work, and she offers an important new assessment of his biography ...
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss GeiselA collection of private works by the late Theodor Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss, encompasses the highly creative and often whimsical paintings that he created for his own pleasure, as provided by his wife Audrey. 40,000 first ...
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