Theodor W. Adorno
Subtitle: One Last Genius
Contributors: Rodney Livingstone (Translator)
Publisher: Belknap Press; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780674026186
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Aesthetics; Europe - Germany; Philosophers; Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers; Continental European; Gay & Lesbian; Poetry; Biography / Autobiography; 20th century; Biography; Germany; Philosophy, Modern
Description: He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form, yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students gives us a clear look at how the man and his moment came together to create 'critical theory'. The book is also a window onto the cultural ferment of Adorno's day.