# Theodor W. Adorno bibliography

The following is a list of the major work by Theodor W. Adorno, a 20th-century German philosopher, sociologist and critical theorist associated closely with the Frankfurt School. This list also includes information regarding English translation.

## Collected works

Adorno's Gesammelte Schriften [GS] are published by Suhrkamp Verlag. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann, with Gretel Adorno, Susan Buck-Morss and Klaus Schultz, the twenty volume edition of Adorno's writings were published from 1970 to 1986. Additionally, his Nachgelassene Schriften [NaS], edited by the Theodor W. Adorno Archive, includes his lecture courses, as well as incomplete works.

## Writings

| Year | Original German | English Translation |
| 1933 | Kierkegaard: Konstruktion des Ästhetischen, GS 2. | Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, trans. by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989) |
| 1944/1947 | with Max Horkheimer, Dialektik der Aufklärung: Philosophische Fragmente, GS 3 | with Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002) |
| 1947 | with Hanns Eisler, Komposition für den Film | with Hanns Eisler, Composing for the Films (New York: Continuum, 2005) |
| 1949 | Philosophie der neuen Musik, GS 12 | Philosophy of New Music, trans. by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) |
| 1950 | | with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950) |
| 1951 | Minima Moralia. Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben, GS 4 | Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, trans. by Edmund Jephcott (London: NLRB, 1974) |
| 1952 | Versuch über Wagner, GS 13 | In Search of Wagner, trans. R. Livingstone, London: NLB, 1981 |
| 1955 | Prismen. Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft, GS 10.1 | Prisms, trans. S. Weber and S. Weber (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1981) |
| 1956 | Zur Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie. Studien über Husserl und die phänomenologischen Antinomien, GS 5 | Against Epistemology: A Metacritique; Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies, trans. W. Domingo (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1982) |
| 1956 | Dissonanzen. Musik in der verwalteten Welt | |
| 1958 | Noten zur Literatur I GS 11 | Notes to Literature I, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991) |
| 1959 | Klangfiguren. Musikalische Schriften I, GS 16 | Sound Figures, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999) |
| 1960 | Mahler. Eine musikalische Physiognomie, GS 13 | Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1993) |
| 1961 | Noten zur Literatur II GS 11 | Notes to Literature II, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992) |
| 1962 | Einleitung in die Musiksoziologie. Zwölf theoretische Vorlesungen. | Introduction to the Sociology of Music |
| 1963 | Drei Studien zu Hegel GS 5 | Hegel: Three Studies, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1993) |
| 1963 | Eingriffe. Neun kritische Modelle, GS 10.2 | Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, trans. H. W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) |
| 1963 | Quasi una fantasia. Musikalische Schriften II, GS 16 | Quasi una Fantasia, trans. Rodney Livingstone (London: Verso, 1992) |
| 1964 | Jargon der Eigentlichkeit. Zur deutschen Ideologie, GS 6 | The Jargon of Authenticity, trans. K. Tarnowski and F. Will (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973) |
| 1964 | Moments musicaux. Neu gedruckte Aufsätze 1928–1962, GS 17 | In Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962, trans. Wieland Hoban (New York: Seagull Books, 2009) |
| 1966 | Negative Dialektik, GS 6 | Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Seabury Press, 1973) |
| 1968 | Berg. Der Meister des kleinsten Übergangs, GS 13 | Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link, trans. J. Brand and C. Hailey (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991) |
| 1969 | Stichworte. Kritische Modelle 2, GS 10.2 | Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, trans. H. W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) |

## Lectures

* Der Jargon der Eigentlichkeit. Hessischer Rundfunk, Abendstudio, April 9, 1963.
* Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus, Lecture to the Socialist Students of Austria, University of Vienna, April 6, 1967.
* Kritik am Positismus. Zum Grundsatzstreit in der deutschen Soziologie. Hessischer Rundfunk, Abendstudio, February 11, 1969.

## Posthumously published writings

| Year | Original German | English Translation |
| 1970 | Ästhetische Theorie, GS 7 | Aesthetic Theory, trans. R. Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997) |
| 1993 | Beethoven. Philosophie der Musik. Fragmente und Texte. hrsg. von Rolf Tiedemann, NaS 1:2 | Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music; Fragments and Texts, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. E. Jephcott (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998) |
| 1995 | Kants "Kritik der reinen Vernunft"(1959), hrsg. von Rolf Tiedmann | Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001) |
| 1996 | Probleme der Moralphilosophie(1963), hrsg. von Thomas Schröder | Problems of Moral Philosophy, trans. Rodney Livingstone (California: Stanford University Press, 2000) |
| 2006 | Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory, hrsg. von Robert Hullot-Kentor | Current of Music, trans. Robert-Hullot Kentor (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2009) |

## Correspondence

| Original German | English Translation |
| Briefe an die Eltern 1939-1951, ed. Christoph Godde, Henri Lonitz | Letters to His Parents 1939-1951 (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2006) |