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9780826474209

Adorno: A Guide for the Perplexed

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    0826474209

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  • Copyright: 2006-04-24
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

One of the most influential philosophers and cultural theorists of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno poses a considerable challenge to students. His works can often seem obscure and impenetrable, particularly for those with little knowledge of the

Author Biography

Alex Thomson is Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at Edinburgh University

Table of Contents

Abbreviations vii
Introduction 1(9)
Against Authenticity
10(30)
Weimar Years
12(8)
In America
20(4)
Adorno's Cultural Criticism
24(7)
Return
31(5)
Aftermath
36(4)
Art and Culture
40(43)
Adorno and Popular Music
45(8)
The Aesthetics of Music
53(5)
Modernism or Avant-garde?
58(5)
History and Truth-Content
63(7)
The Culture Industry
70(6)
Aesthetic Theory and Ideology-critique
76(7)
Freedom and Society
83(35)
Wrong Life: Adorno's Minima Moralia
87(6)
Adorno and Kant
93(4)
Freedom and Society
97(6)
Dialectic of Enlightenment
103(7)
The Morality of Thinking
110(4)
Living with Guilt
114(4)
Philosophy and History
118(40)
Writing the Disaster
122(7)
Crisis of Reason
129(5)
Against Historicism
134(7)
The Task of Philosophy
141(7)
Adorno and Marxism
148(5)
Conclusion
153(5)
Notes 158(4)
Further Reading 162(4)
Bibliography 166(5)
Index 171

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