The actuality of Adorno : critical essays on Adorno and the postmodern

Author(s)

• Pensky, Max

Bibliographic Information

The actuality of Adorno : critical essays on Adorno and the postmodern

edited and with an introduction by Max Pensky

（SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy / Dennis J. Schmidt, editor）

State University of New York Press, c1997

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Always resistant to classification, the work of Theodor Adorno ranged from biting criticism of the emergent popular culture in the United States and Europe, through theories of contemporary music and literature, and sociological analyses of the rise of fascism and antisemitism in Germany and elsewhere, to careful readings of modern Continental philosophers. As a leading member of the famous Frankfurt School of critical social theory, Adorno influenced current discussions in cultural studies and Continental philosophy. However, the various dimensions of Adorno's significance for the range of contemporary postmodern theory remained unclear. This book demonstrates the relevance and power of Adorno's work for the state of critical social theory today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction: Adorno's Actuality Max Pensky 1. Reason—A Different Reason—Something Different Than Reason? Wondering about the Concept of a Different Reason in Adorno, Lyotard, and a Sloterdijk Ute Guzzoni 2. Irreconcilable Modernity: Adorno's Aesthetic Experimentalism and the Transgression Theorem Hauke Brunkhorst 3. Adorno: The Discourse of Philosophy and the Problem of Language Peter Uwe Hohendahl 4. Mass Culture as Hieroglyphic Writing: Adorno, Derrida, Kracauer Miriam Bratu Hansen 5. Adorno, Modernity, and the Sublime Albrecht Wellmer 6. Kantian Snapshot of Adorno: Modernity Standing Still Wilhelm S. Wurzer 7. Fragment, Fascination, Damaged Life: "The Truth about Hedda Gabler" J. M. Bernstein 8. Theodor Adorno on Tradition Eva Geulen Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA31240476
• ISBN:
  • 0791433315
  • 0791433323
• LCCN: 96022721
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 199 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B3199.A34
  • DC20 : 193
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03775001