Title: Critical models : interventions and catchwords /
Authors: Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969; Pickford, Henry W.; Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Social history; Social sciences Philosophy
Abstract: "Critical Models' combines two of Adorno's most important postwar works - 'Interventions' and 'Catchwords"--And addresses issues such as the dangers of ideological conformity, the fragility of democracy, educational reform, the influence of television and radio and the aftermath and continuity of racism.
Contents: Reviewing Adorno : public opinion and critique / Lydia Goehr -- Interventions : nine critical models -- Why still philosophy -- Philosophy and teachers -- Note on human science and culture -- Those twenties -- Prologue to television -- Television as ideology -- Sexual taboos and law today -- The meaning of working through the past -- Opinion delusion society -- Catchwords : critical models 2 -- Notes on philosophical thinking -- Reason and revelation -- Progress -- Gloss on personality -- Free time -- Taboos on the teaching vocation -- Education after Auschwitz -- On the question : "what is German?" -- Scientific experiences of a European scholar in America -- Dialectical epilegomena : on subject and object -- Dialectical epilegomena : marginalia to theory and praxis -- Critical models 3 -- Critique -- Resignation -- App. 1. Discussion of Professor Adorno's lecture "the meaning of working through the past" -- App. 2. Introduction to the lecture "the meaning of working through the past."