1st Edition

Theodor Adorno Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

Edited By Simon Jarvis
    1584 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 newspaper astrology columns and the Hollywood studio system – and he left a significant mark on each of the many disciplines in which he worked. His philosophically sophisticated rethinking of Marxian materialism has been central to much European and American social theory in the latter half of the twentieth century and his studies of mass culture, radio and television were foundational documents for the discipline of cultural studies.
    This collection charts the most important moments in the international reception of Adorno's thinking, covering the wide range of disciplines his studies touched upon, including literary criticism, musicology, aesthetics, epistemology and metaphysics.

    There is also a great deal of important scholarship and commentary on Adorno in German that remains untranslated into English. This set will therefore provide Anglophone scholars with the first English translations of these important works.

    VOLUME I

    1. Rüdiger Bubner, ‘Kann Theorie ästhetisch werden? Zum Hauptmotiv der Philosophie Adornos’, in Burkhardt Lindner and W. Martin Lüdke (eds.), Materialien zur ästhetischen Theorie Theodor W. Adornos (Suhrkamp, 1985), pp. 108–37

    2. Carl Dahlhaus, ‘Adornos Begriff des musikalischen Materials’, in Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (ed.), Zur Terminologie der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts (Musikwissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1974), pp. 9–21

    3. Felicitas Englisch, ‘Adorno und Hegel. Ein Mißverständnis über die Sprache’, in Frithjof Hager and Hermann Pfützer (eds.), Das unerhört Moderne. Berliner Adorno-Tagung (zu Klampen, 1990), pp. 28–47

    4. Günter Figal, ‘Der Repräsentationscharakter der Kunstwerke und des Naturschöne’, in Theodor W. Adorno: Das Naturschöne als spekulative Gedankenfigur (Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1977), pp. 83–107

    5. Ute Guzzoni, ‘Hegel’s "Unwahrheit": Zu Adornos Hegel-Kritik’, Hegel-Jahrbuch 1975, 242–6

    6. Hermann Mörchen, ‘Macht und Wahrheit’, in Macht und Herrschaft im Denken von Heidegger und Adorno (Klett-Cotta, 1980), pp. 171–86

    7. Birgit Recki, ‘Die Metaphysik der Kritik: Zum Verhältnis von Metaphysik und Erfahrung bei Max Horkheimer und Theodor Adorno’, Neue Hefte für Philosophie 30–1 (1991), pp. 139–71

    8. Herbert Schnädelbach, ‘Dialektik als Vernunftkritik: Zur Konstruktion des Rationalen bei Adorno’, in Vernunft und Geschichte: Vorträge und Abhandlungen (Suhrkamp, 1987), pp. 179–206

    9. Herbert Schnädelbach, ‘Die Aktualität der Dialektik der Aufklärung’, in Harry Kunnemann and Hent de Vries (eds.), Die Aktualität der Dialektik der Aufklärung (Campus Verlag, 1989), pp. 15–35

    10. Michael Theunissen, ‘Negativität bei Adorno’, in Adorno-Konferenz 1983, ed. Ludwig von Friedeburg and Jürgen Habermas (Suhrkamp, 1983), pp. 41–65

    11. Anke Thyen, ‘Dimensionen des Nichtidentischen’, in Negative Dialektik und Erfahrung: Zur Rationalität des Nichtidentischen bei Adorno (Suhrkamp, 1989), pp. 198–221

    12. Matthias Tichy, ‘Der Vorgriff auf den wahren Begriff des Allgemeine in der Erfahrung und der Kunst’, in Theodor W. Adorno: Das Verhältnis von Allgemeinem und Besonderem in seiner Philosophie (Bouvier, 1977), pp. 106–43

    VOLUME II

    13. [Anonymous], ‘Adorno: Love and Cognition’, Times Literary Supplement, 9 Mar. 1973, pp. 253–5

    14. Regina Becker-Schmidt, ‘Critical Theory as a Critique of Society: Theodor W. Adorno’s Significance for a Feminist Sociology’, in Maggie O’Neill (ed.), Adorno, Culture and Feminism (Sage, 1999), pp. 104–18

    15. Seyla Benhabib, ‘Autonomy as Mimetic Reconciliation’, in Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory (New York, 1986), pp. 186–223

    16. Jessica Benjamin, ‘The End of Internalization: Adorno’s Social Psychology’, Telos 32 (1977), pp. 42–64

    17. Jay Bernstein, ‘Speculation, Art and Politics’, in The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), pp. 261–74

    18. Jay Bernstein, ‘Ethical Modernism’, in Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 415–56

    19. Georgina Born, ‘Against Negation, for a Politics of Cultural Production: Adorno, Aesthetics, the Social’, Screen 34 (1993), pp. 223–42

    20. Andrew Bowie, ‘The Culture of Truth: Adorno’, in From Romanticism to Critical Theory: The Philosophy of German Literary Theory (Routledge, 1997), pp. 238–80

    21. Stefan Breuer, ‘Adorno’s Anthropology’, trans. John Blazek, Telos 64 (1985–6), 15–31

    22. Hauke Brunkhorst, ‘Adorno, Heidegger and Postmodernity’, Philosophy and Social Criticism 14 (1988), 411–24

    23. Peter Bürger, ‘Adorno’s Anti-Avant-Gardism’, Telos 86 (1990–1), pp. 49–60

    24. Anthony Cascardi, ‘The Consequences of Enlightenment’, in Consequences of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 1–48

    25. Deborah Cook, ‘Adorno, Ideology and Ideology-Critique’, Philosophy and Social Criticism 27(1) (2001), pp. 1–20

    26. Deborah Cook, ‘Reassessing the Culture Industry’, in The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), pp. 103–29

    27. Michael Cahn, ‘Subversive Mimesis’, in Mimesis in Contemporary Theory, ed. Mihai Spariosu (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1984), pp. 27–64

    28. Drucilla Cornell, ‘The Ethical Message of Negative Dialectics’, in The Philosophy of the Limit (Routledge, 1992), pp. 13–38

    29. Peter Dews, ‘Adorno, Poststructuralism and the Critique of Identity’, in The Limits of Disenchantment (Verso, 1996), pp. 19–38

    30. Martin Donougho, ‘The Cunning of Odysseus: A Theme in Hegel, Lukács and Adorno’, Philosophy and Social Criticism 8 (1981), pp. 11–43

    VOLUME III

    31. James Gordon Finlayson, ‘Adorno on the Ethical and the Ineffable’, European Journal of Philosophy 10(1) (2002), pp. 1–25

    32. Rodolphe Gasché, ‘The Theory of Natural Beauty and its Evil Star: Kant, Hegel and Adorno’, Research in Phenomenology 32 (2002), 103–22

    33. Jürgen Habermas, ‘The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’, in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, trans. Frederick Lawrence (Polity Press, 1987), pp. 106–30

    34. Peter Uwe Hohendahl, ‘Interpretation as Critique: The Path to Literature’, in Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno (University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 75–104

    35. Axel Honneth, ‘Foucault and Adorno: Two Forms of the Critique of Modernity’, Thesis Eleven 15 (1986), 48–59

    36. Tom Huhn, ‘The Moment of Mimesis: Heidegger’s "Origin of the Work of Art" in Relation to Adorno and Lyotard’, Philosophy and Social Criticism 22(4) (1996), pp. 45–69

    37. Carrie L. Hull, ‘The Need in Thinking: Materiality in Theodor W. Adorno and Judith Butler’, Radical Philosophy 84 (1997), pp. 22–35

    38. Robert Hullot-Kentor, ‘Back to Adorno’, Telos 81 (1989), pp. 5–29

    39. Andreas Huyssen, ‘Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner’, New German Critique 29 (1983), pp. 8–38

    40. Leo Löwenthal, ‘Recollections of Theodor W. Adorno’, in An Unmastered Past: The Autobiographical Reflections of Leo Löwenthal (University of California Press, 1987), pp. 201–15

    41. Fredric Jameson, ‘T. W. Adorno; or, Historical Tropes’, in Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton University Press, 1971), pp. 3–59

    42. Simon Jarvis, ‘The Coastline of Experience: Materialism and Metaphysics in Adorno’, Radical Philosophy 85 (1997), pp. 7–19

    43. Simon Jarvis, ‘What is Speculative Thinking?’, Revue Internationale de Philosophie 63(227) (Jan. 2004), pp. 69–83

    44. Martin Jay, ‘The Concept of Totality in Lukács and Adorno’, Telos 32 (1977), pp. 117–37

    45. Martin Jay, ‘Adorno in America’, New German Critique 31 (1984), pp. 157–82

    46. Rob Kaufman, ‘Red Kant; or, the Persistence of the Third Critique in Adorno and Jameson’, Critical Inquiry 26(4) (2000), pp. 682–724

    47. Christoph Menke, ‘The Aesthetics of Negativity and Hermeneutics’, in The Sovereignty of Art, trans. Neil Solomon (MIT Press, 1996), pp. 71–105

    48. Rainer Nägele, ‘The Scene of the Other: Theodor W. Adorno’s Negative Dialectic in the Context of Poststructuralism’, in Jonathan Arac (ed.), Postmodernism and Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 1986), pp. 91–111

    VOLUME IV

    49. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, ‘Language: Its Murmurings, its Darkness, and its Silver Rib’, in Exact Imagination, Late Work (MIT Press, 1997), pp. 59–102

    50. Brian O’Connor, ‘Adorno and the Problem of Givenness’, Revue Internationale de Philosophie 63(227) (Jan. 2004), pp. 85–99

    51. Peter Osborne, ‘Adorno and the Metaphysics of Modernism: The Problem of a "Postmodern" Art’, in The Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin, ed. Andrew Benjamin (Routledge, 1989), pp. 23–48

    52. Max Paddison, ‘The Critique Criticized: Adorno and Popular Music’, Popular Music 2 (1982), pp. 201–18

    53. Heinz Paetzold, ‘Adorno’s Notion of Natural Beauty’, in Tom Huhn and Lambert Zuidervaart (eds.), The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press, 1997), pp. 123–45

    54. Henry Pickford, ‘Under the Sign of Adorno’, Modern Language Notes 108 (1993), pp. 564–83

    55. Peter Pütze, ‘Nietzsche and Critical Theory (1974)’, Telos, 50 (1981–2), pp. 103–14

    56. Gillian Rose, ‘From Speculative to Dialectical Thinking: Hegel and Adorno’, in Judaism and Modernity (Blackwell, 1993), pp. 53–63

    57. Gillian Rose, ‘The Lament over Reification’, in The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (Macmillan, 1978) pp. 27–51

    58. Rolf Tiedemann, ‘Concept, Image, Name: On Adorno’s Utopia of Knowledge’, in Tom Huhn and Lambert Zuidervaart (eds.), The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press, 1997), pp. 123–45

    59. Albrecht Wellmer, ‘Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno’s Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity’, Telos 62 (1985), 89–115

    60. Albrecht Wellmer, ‘Metaphysics at the Moment of its Fall’, trans. Shaun Whiteside, in Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan (eds.), Literary Theory Today (Polity Press, 1990), pp. 35–50

    61. Joel Whitebook, ‘Synthesis as Violence: Lacan and Adorno on the Ego’, in Perversion and Utopia (MIT Press, 1995), pp. 119–64

    62. Irving Wohlfarth, ‘Hibernation: On the Tenth Anniversary of Adorno’s Death’, Modern Language Notes 94 (Dec. 1979), pp. 956–87

    63. Richard Wolin, ‘Utopia, Mimesis, and Reconciliation: A Redemptive Critique of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory’, Representations 32 (1990), pp. 33–49

    64. Lambert Zuidervaart, ‘History, Art and Truth’, in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion (MIT Press, 1991), pp. 275–307