Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the twentieth century's
most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments--the
rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the
standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to
contemporary capitalism--Adorno sought to evaluate and synthesize
the essential insights of Western philosophy by revisiting the
ethical and sociological arguments of his predecessors: Kant,
Nietzsche, Hegel, and Marx. This book, first published in Germany
in 1996, provides a succinct introduction to Adorno's challenging
and far-reaching thought. Gerhard Schweppenhauser, a leading
authority on the Frankfurt School of critical theory, explains
Adorno's epistemology, social and political philosophy, aesthetics,
and theory of culture.
After providing a brief overview of Adorno's life,
Schweppenhauser turns to the theorist's core philosophical
concepts, including post-Kantian critique, determinate negation,
and the primacy of the object, as well as his view of the
Enlightenment as a code for world domination, his diagnosis of
modern mass culture as a program of social control, and his
understanding of modernist aesthetics as a challenge to conceive an
alternative politics. Along the way, Schweppenhauser illuminates
the works widely considered Adorno's most important achievements:
"Minima Moralia," "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (co-authored with
Horkheimer), and "Negative Dialectics." Adorno wrote much of the
first two of these during his years in California (1938-49), where
he lived near Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, whom he assisted
with the musical aesthetics at the center of Mann's novel "Doctor
Faustus."
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