The Adorno reader

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The Adorno reader

Title:

The Adorno reader

Author:

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

ISBN:

9780631210771

9780631210764

Personal Author:

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Uniform Title:

Selections. English. 2000

Publication Information:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.

Physical Description:

ix, 368 p. : 24 cm.

Series:

Blackwell readers

Series Title:

Blackwell readers

Contents:

Pt. I. The Task of Philosophy. 1. The Actuality of Philosophy. 2. Why Philosophy? 3. Negative Dialectics and the Possibility of Philosophy. 4. The Melancholy Science. 5. Meditations of Metaphysics: After Auschwitz -- Pt. II. The Concepts of Philosophy. 6. The Essay as Form. 7. Metacritique of Epistemology. 8. Subject and Object -- Pt. III. Sociology. 9. The Concept of Enlightenment. 10. Sociology and Empirical Research -- Pt. IV. Art, Culture and Society. 11. Cultural Criticism and Society. 12. Lyric Poetry and Society. 13. Culture Industry Reconsidered. 14. The Autonomy of Art -- Pt. V. Criticism. 15. The Perennial Fashion - Jazz. 16. Arnold Schoenberg, 1874-1951. 17. Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis. 18. Trying to Understand Endgame.

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Summary

This superb volume brings together for the first time the essential readings selections from Adorno's multidisciplinary work. It will be valuable to readers at various levels as it makes available Adorno material which previously was either difficult to access or was presented in a form which was intimidating.