Theodor W. Adorno : one last genius

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Theodor W. Adorno : one last genius

Detlev Claussen ; translated by Rodney Livingstone

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, c2008

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed

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Theodor W. Adorno : ein letztes Genie

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Originally published: Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2003

Includes index

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内容説明

He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create "critical theory." An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno's day-and its ongoing importance in our own. The biography begins at the shining moment of the German bourgeoisie, in a world dominated by liberals willing to extend citizenship to refugees fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe. Detlev Claussen follows Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) from his privileged life as a beloved prodigy to his intellectual coming of age in Weimar Germany and Vienna; from his exile during the Nazi years, first to England, then to the United States, to his emergence as the Adorno we know now in the perhaps not-so-unlikely setting of Los Angeles. There in 1943 with his collaborator Max Horkheimer, Adorno developed critical theory, whose key insight-that to be entertained is to give one's consent-helped define the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century. In capturing the man in his complex relationships with some of the century's finest minds-including, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann, Siegfried Kracauer, Georg Lukacs, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht-Claussen reveals how much we have yet to learn from Theodor Adorno, and how much his life can tell us about ourselves and our time.

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List of Illustrations How to Read This Book 1. Instead of an Overture: No Heirs 2. The House in Schoene Aussicht: A Frankfurt Childhood around 1910 3. From Teddie Wiesengrund to Dr. Wiesengrund-Adorno 4. Adorno as "Non-identical" Man 5. Transitions Bertolt Brecht: "To Those Who Come after Us" Theodor W. Adorno: "Out of the Firing Line" Hanns Eisler, the Non-identical Brother Fritz Lang, the American Friend 6. Frankfurt Transfer 7. Adorno as "Identical" Man 8. The Palimpsest of Life Appendix: Letters Theodor W. Adorno to Ernst Bloch, 26 July 1962 Max Horkheimer to Theodor W. Adorno, 27 September 1958 Theodor W. Adorno to Max Horkheimer, 14 February 1965 Theodor W. Adorno to Claus Behncke, 21 February 1964 Max Horkheimer to Otto O. Herz, 1 September 1969 Notes Sources Acknowledgments Index

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