Theodor W. Adorno

Author(s)

• Delanty, Gerard

Bibliographic Information

Theodor W. Adorno

edited by Gerard Delanty

（Sage masters of modern social thought）

SAGE Publications, 2004

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Theodor W.Adorno was one of the towering intellectuals of the twentieth century. His contributions cover such a myriad of fields, including the sociology of culture, social theory, the philosophy of music, ethics, art and aesthetics, film, ideology, the critique of modernity and musical composition, that it is difficult to assimilate the sheer range and profundity of his achievement. His celebrated friendship with Walter Benjamin has produced some of the most moving and insightful correspondence on the origins and objects of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. This unprecedented collection, devised and assembled by one of Europe's rising social theorists, distills the best from published assessments and responses to Adorno's oeuvre. The collection is divided into 4 volumes: Volume 1: Philosophy, Ethics and Critical Theory Part 1: Negative Dialectics Included here are contributions on the concept of totality in the writings of Adorno and Lukacs; Adorno and Bourgeois Philosophy; the relationship between Adorno and Kierkegaard; Adorno's Critique of Idealism; Adorno and Linguistics; Adono and Habermas. Part 2: Ethics and Redemption This is comprised of contributions on Adorno and Truth; Adorno's Inverse Theology; and Adorno and the Ineffable Part 3: Critical Theory, Ideology Critique and Social Science Included here are contributions on Adorno's relation to the Positivist Dispute; the Popper-Adorno Controversy; Adorno and Empirical Research; and Hermeneutics and Critical Theory. Volume 2: Aesthetic Theory Part 1: Art and Politics in 'Aesthetic Theory' This includes material on the De-Aestheticization of Art; Adorno, Utopia and Mimesis; Adorno and autonomous art; Adorno and Dialectics; Adorno, Marxism and Art; Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics; Adorno's concept of the Avant-Garde. Part 2: Philosophy of Music This includes contributions on Adorno's music and social criticism; Adorno and nostalgia; Adorno, Heidegger and the meaning of music; Adorno and Wagner. Part 3: On Jazz The material included here addresses questions of Adorno and Popular Music; Adorno's encounter with jazz; Adorno, Jazz and Society; and the reasons for Adorno's apparent hatred of jazz. Volume 3: Social Theory & The Critique of Modernity Part 1: On 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment' Included here are chapters on the dialectic of enlightenment and post-functionalist thought; dialectic of enlightenment as genealogy critique; the relationship between the dialectic of enlightenment, modernity and postmodernity; Adorno's critique of progress; Adorno and theories of subjectivity; and the dialectic of enlightenment and rationality. Part 2: Anti-Semitism This consists of material on Adorno and Horkheimer; and Adorno and Public Sphere Part 3: Popular Culture and Capitalism Included here are contributions on Adorno and Sport; Adorno's alleged left-wing elitism; Adorno's critique of astrology and the Occult; Benjamin and Adorno on Disney; Adorno, Totalitarianism and the Welfare State; and Adorno and Mass Society. Volume 4: Cultural Theory and the Postmodern Challenge Part 1: 'Damaged Life': Exile in America This section includes Leo Lowenthal's insightful recollections of Adorno; Adorno and the primal history of subjectivity; Adorno and Los Angeles; Adorno's relation to American culture; and Adorno's exile in England. Part 2: Film Theory This section includes chapters on Adorno and the Culture Industry; Benjamin, Adorno and Contemporary Film Theory; Adorno, Aesthetics and the Social. Part 3: Wellmer and Adorno Included here are papers on Aesthetic, Psychic and Social Synthesis in Adorno and Wellmer; and New German Aesthetic Theory after Adorno. Part 4: Jameson on Adorno Included here are papers on Jameson, Adorno and the persistence of the Utopian; and a Marxism for Postmodernism Part 5: Modernism and Postmodernism This section contains papers on Adorno, Foucault and the Modern Intellectual; Adorno, Foucault and Two forms of the Critique of Modernity; Adorno and the Habermas-Lyotard Debate; Adorno, Postmodernism and Edward Said; Adorno, Heidegger and Postmodernism; Adorno and the Decline of the Modern Age; The literary process of modernism; Adorno, Tradition and the Postmodern Part 5: The Feminist Response Included here are contributions on Adorno and Judith Butler; Adorno, Art Theory and Feminist Practice; and Gender in the writings of Adorno and Horkheimer. The collection comes with a superb Introduction to Adorno by Gerard Delanty which elucidates the main contributions of this penetrating and enduring thinker. Comprehensive and consistently illuminating, the collection includes the thought on Adorno from some of the most distinguished commentators on social theory. Included here are selections from the writings of Susan Buck-Morss, Martin Jay, Agnes Heller; David Frisby; Johann Arnason; Richard Wolin; Andrew Bowie; Robert Hulnot-Kentor; Leo Lowenthal; Richard Rorty Axel Honneth; Albrecht Wellmer; and Jurgen Habermas. The result is a peerless research resource allowing readers to delve into all aspects of Adorno's extraordinary accomplishments in social thought, philosophy and cultural criticism. It will be required reading for students of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics and Social Theory.

Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND CRITICAL THEORY Introduction - Gerard Delanty PART ONE: NEGATIVE DIALECTICS The Concept of Totality in Lukacs and Adorno - Martin Jay T W Adorno and the Dilemmas of Bourgeois Philosophy - Susan Buck-Morss Adorno's Kierkegaardian Debt - David Sherman Minding the World - Espen Hammer Adorno's Critique of Idealism Concepts and Intuitions - Stale Finke Adorno after the Linguistic Turn Adorno and Habermas on the Human Condition - Deborah Cook PART TWO: ETHICS AND REDEMPTION Correlations, Constellations and the Truth - David Kaufmann `Bilderverbot' Meets Body in Theodor W Adorno's Inverse Theology - Elizabeth A Pritchard Adorno on the Ethical and the Ineffable - James Gordon Finlason PART THREE: CRITICAL THEORY, IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE AND SOCIAL SCIENCE The Positivist Dispute as a Turning Point in German Post-War Theory - Agnes Heller The Popper-Adorno Controversy - David Frisby The Methodological Dispute in German Sociology To Question Foundations - Leon Goldstein Kultur and Culture - David E Morrison The Case of Theodor W Adorno and Paul F Lazarsfeld Objectivity and Insecurity - Ryan Drake Adorno and Empirical Social Research Farewell to Critical Theory? - Helmut Dubiel Cultural Critique and Cultural Presuppositions - Johann Arnason The Hermeneutical Undercurrent in Critical Theory Hibernation - Irving Wohifarth On the Tenth Anniversary of Adorno's Death VOLUME TWO: AESTHETIC THEORY PART ONE: ART AND POLITICS IN AESTHETIC THEORY The De-Aestheticization of Art - Richard Wolin On Adorno's AEesthetische Theorie Utopia, Mimesis and Reconciliation - Richard Wolin A Redemptive Critique of Adorno's [um]Aesthetic Theory Autonomy of Art - Peter U Hohendahl Looking back at Adorno's AEesthetische Theorie The Social Significance of Automomous Art Adorno and B[um]urger - Lambert Zuidervaart Historical Dialectics and the Autonomy of Art in Adorno's [um]Aesthetische Theorie - James M Harding Adorno, Marxism and Art - Russell A Bernan Critical Notes on Adorno's Sociology of Music and Art - Donald B Knuspit Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics - Raymond Geuss An Aesthetics of Negativity/An Aesthetics of Reception - Pauline Johnson Jauss's Dispute with Adorno Autonomy and Anti-Art - Stewart Martin Adorno's Concept of Avant-Garde Art PART TWO: PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC An Introduction to Adorno's Music and Social Criticism - Ronald Weitzman A Knowledge That Would Not Be Power - Calvin Thomas Adorno, Nostalgia, and the Historicity of the Musical Subject Adorno's Wagner - Gyorgy Markus PART THREE: ON JAZZ The Impossibility of Music: Adorno, Popular and Other Music - Robert Hullot-Kentor Adorno and Jazz - Ulrich Schoenherr Reflections on a Failed Encounter Adorno, Jazz and the Aesthetics of Popular Music - Theodore A Gracyk Why Did Adorno Hate Jazz? - Robert W Witkin Adorno on Jazz and Society - Joseph D Lewandowski VOLUME THREE: SOCIAL THEORY AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY PART ONE: ON THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT Back to Adorno - Robert Hullot-Kentor The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Post-Functionalist Theory of Society - Johann P Arnason Dialectic of Enlightenment as Genealogy Critique - Roger Foster Between Modernity and Postmodernity - Christopher Rocco Reading Dialectic of Enlightenment The Oversimplification of Politics - Richard Rorty The World Spirit on the Fins of a Rocket - Michael Loewy and Eleni Varikas Adorno's Critique of Progress The Dialectic of Enlightenment - Yvonne Sherrat A Contemporary Reading The Urgeschichte of Subjectivity Reconsidered - Joel Whitebook The Possibility of a Disclosing Critique of Society - Axel Honneth The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Light of Current Debates in Social Criticism The Enlightenment of Rationality - Hauke Brunkhorst Remarks on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment The Death of the Sirens and the Origin of the Work of Art - Albrecht Wellmer PART TWO: ANTI-SEMITISM Adorno and Horkheimer - David Seymour Enlightenment and Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism as Distorted Politics: Adorno on the Public Sphere - Brett R Wheller PART THREE: POPULAR CULTURE AND CAPITALISM Adorno on Sport - William Morgan The Case of the Fractured Dialectic Left-Wing Elitism, Adorno on Popular Culture - Bruce Baugh Popular Occultism and Critical Social Theory - Cary J Nederman and James Guilding Exploring Some Thems in Adorno's Critique of Astrology and the Occult Of Mice and Ducks - Miriam Hansen Benjamin and Adorno on Disney Adorno on Late Capitalism - Deborah Cook Totalitarianism and the Welfare State Adorno on Mass Society - Deborah Cook VOLUME FOUR: CULTURAL THEORY AND THE POSTMODERN CHALLENGE PART ONE: `DAMAGED LIFE': EXILE AND AMERICA Recollections of Theodor W Adorno - Leo Lowenthal Theodor Adorno - J[um]urgen Habermas The Primal History of Subjectivity - Self-Affirmation Gone Wild Adorno's Uncle - Evelyn Wilcock Dr Berhard Wingfield and the English Exile of Theodore W Adorno, 1934-8 Damage Control - Nico Israel Adorno, Los Angeles, and the Dislocation of Culture Adorno in America - Martin Jay The Displaced Intellectual? Adorno's American Years Revisited - Peter U Hohendahl PART TWO: FILM THEORY Critical Theory and Film - Diane Waldman Adorno and 'The Culture Industry' Revisited The Aesthetic Experience of Modernity: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Contemporary Film Theory - Richard W Allen Against Negation, For a Politics of Cultural Production - Georgina Born Adorno, Aesthetics, the Social PART THREE: WELLMER ON ADORNO From Schoenberg to Odysseus - Joel Whitebook Aesthetic, Psychic and Social Synthesis in Adorno and Wellmer New German Aesthetic Theory after Adorno - Austin Harrington Martin Seel's Art of Diremption PART FOUR: JAMESON ON ADORNO A Marxism for the Postmodern? Jameson's Adorno - Peter Osborne Jameson's Adorno, or the Persistence of the Utopian - John Pizer PART FIVE: MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM The Last of the Modernists - Eduardo Delafuente Adorno, Foucault and the Modern Intellectual Foucault and Adorno - Axel Honneth Two Forms of the Critique of Modernity Interpretation and Domination - Shane Phelan Adorno and the Habermas-Lyotard Debate The Politics of Nonidentity - Adorno, Postmodernism - and Edward Said - Fred Dallmayr Adorno, Heidegger and Postmodernism - Hauke Brunkhorst Adorno and the Decline of the Modern Age - Peter B[um]urger The Literary Process of Modernism: From Rousseau to Adorno - Hans Robert Jauss Adorno, Tradition and the Postmodern - Ulrich Schoenherr PART SIX: THE FEMINIST RESPONSE The Need in Thinking - Carie C Hull Materiality in T W Adorno and Judith Butler Adorno, Art Theory, and Feminist Practice - Amy Mullin A Hidden Agenda - Heidi M Schlipphacke Gender in Selected Writings by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

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• NCID: BA67145852
• ISBN:
  • 0761943641
• LCCN: 2003116441
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Sociology
  • LCSH : Criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA49297247