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The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture
A collection of key articles on the irrational in mass culture, relevant to the understanding of phenomena such as astrology and New Age cults, the po...
Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by cer...
The correspondence between Adorno and Walter Benjamin, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among t...
This book provides an invaluable introduction to his historical and conceptual engagement with sociology....
This work is the keystone of the thought of the Frankfurt School. It is a wide-ranging philosophical and psychological critique of the Western categor...
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kr...
Negative Dialects is a phrase that flouts tradition. As early as Plato, dialectics meant to achieve something positive by means of negation; the thoug...
Ein Austausch(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 050)
Während ihres Exils auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten entfaltete sich ein intensiver Austausch zwischen dem Schriftsteller Thomas Mann und d...
Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the in...
Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W. Adorno lived in New York City as a refugee from 1938 until 1941. During these years, he was intensively involved in a st...
A landmark work from the founder of the Frankfurt School. A key work in the study of Adorno, of interest to students and general readers alike....
This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several...
Philosophical Fragments
This new translation of the Frankfurt School’s seminal text includes textual variants and discussion of the work’s influence on Critical Theory. D...
"Essays on Veblen, Huxley, Benjamin, Bach, Proust, Schoenberg, Spengler, jazz, Kafka"--Jacket subtitle....
The most important aesthetics of the century, this is a long-awaited work, the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Among the twelve major secti...
This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical de...
Interventions and Catchwords
Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works — Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwor...
In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The ...
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1939-1951
'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s le...
Reflections from Damaged Life
A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Bu...
"Dreams are as black as death." —Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publish...
A Philosophical Reader
This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. ...
This new edition includes a lengthy foreword by Slavoj Zizek, entitled "Why is Wagner worth saving?"...
This classic account of the nature of film music aesthetics was first published in 1947. Its value comes from a unique combination of talents and expe...
Concept and Problems
This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics ...
Lectures 1964-1965
"Early in the 1960s Adorno gave four courses of lectures on the road leading to Negative Dialectics, his magnum opus of 1966. The second of these was ...
In summer 1960, Adorno gave the first of a series of lectures devoted to the relation between sociology and philosophy. One of his central concerns wa...
"Theodor Adorno was one of the giants of twentieth-century thought. This volume presents four of his key writings on the irrational in mass culture : ...
"This collection demonstrates the continuing relevance of Adorno's work to the analysis and understanding of modern times. A brilliant contribution to...
A Metacritique : Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies
Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) was a cultural philosopher, sociologist, literary critic, and historian of music who, along with Max Horkheimer, Herbert Ma...
On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany
In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonica...
Bringing together the findings of psychoanalysis and social science, this book grew out of an urgent commitment to study the origins of anti-Semitism ...
On 6 April 1967, at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture which is not mer...
Selected Essays on Mass Culture
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twenti...
A Musical Physiognomy
Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social...
This study was written in English in the 1930s when Adorno, one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, was living in the United States. It i...