Theodor W. Adorno
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Gerhard Schweppenhäuser ; translated by James Rolleston.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780822344544; 9780822344711
Subjects: Adorno, Theodor W., -- 1903-1969
Work titles: Theodor W. Adorno zur Einführung.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the English edition; title: Translator's preface; title: The project of renewing childhood by transforming one's life; title: Critical theory; title: Reason's self-criticism; title: Defined negation; title: The two faces of enlightenment; title: Rescuing what is beyond hope; title: Philosophy from the perspective of redemption; title: Primacy of the object; title: The totally socialized society; title: The concept of society; title: Liquidation of the individual; title: Critical theory on morality; title: The goal of the emancipated society; title: The powerless utopia of beauty; title: The destruction and salvation of art; title: The silence of music; title: The transition from art to knowledge; title: Theorizing art and culture in the institute for social research; title: Benjamin and kracauer: theorizing mass art; title: Anarchistic and bourgeois romanticism: Adorno's critique of Benjamin; title: The work of art and the concept of truth; title: The failure of culture; title: The radically pathetic and guilty culture; title: Enlightenment as mass deception; title: Biographical timeline.