Schweppenhäuser / Fish / Jameson Theodor W. Adorno

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9072-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

A translation of a succinct introduction to the challenging and far-reaching thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), one of the twentieth centurys most important thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schweppenhäuser, Gerhard

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Weitere Mitwirkende

James Rolleston, Rolleston

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition vii

Translator's Preface xi

1. The Project of Renewing Childhood by Transforming One's Life 1

2. Critical Theory 11

3. Reason's Self-Criticism 18

Defined Negation 20

The Two Faces of Enlightenment 26

4. Rescuing What is Beyond Hope 34

Philosophy from the Perspective of Redemption 34

Primacy of the Object 38

5. The Totally Socialized Society 51

The Concept of Society 52

Liquidation of the Individual 58

Critical Theory on Morality 68

6. The Goal of the Emancipated Society 77

7. The Powerless Utopia of Beauty 91

The Destruction and Salvation of Art 93

The Silence of Music 102

The Transition from Art to Knowledge 109

Theorizing Art and Culture in the Institute for Social Research 112

Benjamin and Kracauer: Theorizing Mass Art 120

Anarchistic and Bourgeois Romanticism: Adorno's Critique of Benjamin 125

The Work of Art and the Concept of Truth 128

8. The Failure of Culture 136

The Radically Pathetic and Guilty Culture 137

Enlightenment as Mass Deception 144

Biographical Timeline 159

Notes 163

Bibliography 171

Index 179

Über Autor(innen)

Gerhard Schweppenhäuser is Professor of Design, Communication, and Media Theory at the University of Würzburg in Germany. He has written many books building on the sociocultural, analytical mission of the Frankfurt School, including two focused on Adorno. James L. Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Duke University. He has written books on Kafka, Rilke, and modern German poetry. His translation of Bernd Witte’s Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography won the German Literary Prize of the American Translators Association. His and Kai Evers’s translation of Peter Weiss’s last play, The New Trial, is also published by Duke University Press.