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1. Adorno

   By Brian O'Connor

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. Crucial to the development of Critical Theory, his highly original and distinctive but often difficult writings not only advance questions of fundamental philosophical significance, but...

   Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature

   By Ulrich Plass

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse....

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society

   By Deborah Cook

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Theodor Adorno

   By Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   The range of Adorno's achievement, and the depth of his insights, is breathtaking and daunting. His work on literary, artistic, and musical forms, his devastating indictment of modern industrial society, and his profound grasp of Western culture from Homer to Hollywood have made him one...

   Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge
5. Theodor Adorno

   Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Edited by Simon Jarvis

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Theodor Adorno was a German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist and was a leading member and eventually director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Adorno studied an extraordinary range of subjects during his lifetime – from dialectical logic and the syntax of poetry to...

   Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge
6. Apparitions

   Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

   By Berthold Hoeckner

   Series: Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture

   Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and...

   Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
7. Adorno and the Political

   By Espen Hammer

   Series: Thinking the Political

   Interest in Theodor W. Adorno continues to grow in the English-speaking world as the significance of his contribution to philosophy, social and cultural theory, as well as aesthetics is increasingly recognized. Espen Hammer’s lucid book is the first to properly analyze the political implications of...

   Published September 22nd 2005 by Routledge
8. Dialectics of the Body

   Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno

   By Lisa Yun Lee

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present...

   Published December 25th 2004 by Routledge
9. Adorno on Popular Culture

   By Robert W. Witkin

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. He then goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific...

   Published October 2nd 2002 by Routledge
10. The Jargon of Authenticity

    2nd Edition

    By Theodor Adorno

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language, he calls into question the...

    Published September 4th 2002 by Routledge