Adorno
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Adorno

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Adorno

About this book

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 provide deep-reaching analyses of literature, art, music sociology and political theory.

In this comprehensive introduction, Brian O'Connor explains Adorno's philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time, through original new lines of interpretation. Beginning with an overview of Adorno's life and key philosophical views and influences, which contextualizes the intellectual environment in which he worked, O'Connor assesses the central elements of Adorno's philosophy.

He carefully examines Adorno's distinctive style of analysis and shows how much of his work is a critical response to the various forms of identity thinking that have underpinned the destructive forces of modernity. He goes on to discuss the main areas of Adorno's philosophy: social theory, the philosophy of experience, metaphysics, morality and aesthetics; setting out detailed accounts of Adorno's notions of the dialectic of Enlightenment, reification, totality, mediation, identity, nonidentity, experience, negative dialectics, immanence, freedom, autonomy, imitation and autonomy in art. The final chapter considers Adorno's philosophical legacy and importance today.

Including a chronology, glossary, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading, Adorno is an ideal introduction to this demanding but important thinker, and essential reading for students of philosophy, literature, sociology and cultural studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781134210312
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
History & Theory of Philosophy

Index

Adorno, T. W.: in America 9–12; baptism 3; meets Benjamin 6; birth 2; death 13; family 2–3; first Habilitationsschrift 5; second Habilitationsschrift 6–7; meets Horkheimer 8; inaugural lecture 7; marriage 9; music studies 3; in Oxford 9; post-war return to Germany 12
aesthetic experience 169–70, 182–84; creativity 163–67, 178; performance 167–69
Albert, H. 37, 40–41
anti-Semitism 11, 35, 138
Apel, K. O. 191
Aristotle 90, 155, 156
art: aesthetic semblance 181–82; archaic art 182–84; aesthetic realism 156–60; autonomy of art 173–84; truth content 161, 175–76, 181, 183
Auschwitz 12, 18, 106, 111, 132, 137, 139; Holocaust 35, 133
autonomy 13, 110, 111, 115–16, 175; as resistance 130–35; as Mündigkeit (maturity) 133; see also freedom
Ayer, A. J. 203n
Baudelaire, C. 147, 158
Becker, H. 133
Beckett, S. 147, 148, 158–59, 179
Beethoven, L. v. 3, 165, 175
Being 92, 95, 105
Benhabib, S. 203n
Benjamin, W. 6–7, 12, 17, 31, 86, 98, 148, 156, 159–60, 199
Berg, A. 3
Bernstein, J. M. 204n
Bloch, E. 5
Brecht, B. 140, 150
Bredin, H. 156
Calvelli Adorno della Piana, M....

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Chronology
  9. One Adorno's life and philosophical motivations
  10. Two Society
  11. Three Experience
  12. Four Metaphysics
  13. Five Freedom and morality
  14. Six Aesthetics
  15. Seven Adorno's philosophical legacy
  16. Glossary
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index