Theodor W. Adorno : An Introduction PDF
by Schweppenhauser Gerhard Schweppenhauser
Part of the Post-Contemporary Interventions series
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After providing a brief overview of Adorno's life, Schweppenhauser turns to the theorist's core philosophical concepts, including post-Kantian critique, determinate negation, and the primacy of the object, as well as his view of the Enlightenment as a code for world domination, his diagnosis of modern mass culture as a program of social control, and his understanding of modernist aesthetics as a challenge to conceive an alternative politics. Along the way, Schweppenhauser illuminates the works widely considered Adorno's most important achievements: Minima Moralia, Dialectic of Enlightenment (co-authored with Horkheimer), and Negative Dialectics. Adorno wrote much of the first two of these during his years in California (1938-49), where he lived near Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, whom he assisted with the musical aesthetics at the center of Mann's novel Doctor Faustus.
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- Pages:198 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:06/04/2009
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:198 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:06/04/2009
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- ISBN:9780822390725