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Theodor W. Adorno - An Introduction (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,816
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Theodor W. Adorno - An Introduction (Hardcover): James Rolleston

Theodor W. Adorno - An Introduction (Hardcover)

James Rolleston; Gerhard Schweppenhauser

Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions

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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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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Release date: April 2009
First published: April 2009
Translators: James Rolleston
Authors: Gerhard Schweppenhauser
Dimensions: 224 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4454-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN: 0-8223-4454-8
Barcode: 9780822344544

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