Adorno
A Critical Reader
Blackwell Critical Reader
1. Auflage Dezember 2001
464 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21248-5
John Wiley & Sons
Adorno: A Critical Reader presents a collection of new essays by many of the world's top critics that examine Adorno's lasting impact on the arts, politics, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Adorno and the Autonomous Intellectual: Nigel
Gibson and Andrew Rubin (both Columbia University).
Part I: Politics and Culture.
Part II: Aesthetics.
Part III: Critical Theory and After.
Bibliography.
Index.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Adorno and the Autonomous Intellectual: Nigel
Gibson and Andrew Rubin (both Columbia University).
Part I: Politics and Culture.
Part II: Aesthetics.
Part III: Critical Theory and After.
Bibliography.
Index.
"There is a kind of poetic justice in the fact that Adorno is the
great survivor of the Frankfurt School, the only one whose thought
retained its full actuality. However, the same thing he said for
psychoanalysis - that its truth resides in its very
exaggerations - goes for his own thought: he is at his most
subversive when he gets involved in a deadlock. For this reason,
this critical reader, focused on these deadlocks, is not just a
commentary on his thought, but literally part of it. In
short, this book is simply a must!" Slavoj Zizek,
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institute, Essen
"Against all odds, Adorno has emerged at the dawn of the
twenty-first century as arguably the leading theoretical
inspiration of our time. These stimulating essays, written by fresh
as well as familiar commentators on his oeuvre, go a long way
towards explaining the power of his ideas and demonstrating their
abiding relevance." Martin Jay, University of California,
Berkeley
great survivor of the Frankfurt School, the only one whose thought
retained its full actuality. However, the same thing he said for
psychoanalysis - that its truth resides in its very
exaggerations - goes for his own thought: he is at his most
subversive when he gets involved in a deadlock. For this reason,
this critical reader, focused on these deadlocks, is not just a
commentary on his thought, but literally part of it. In
short, this book is simply a must!" Slavoj Zizek,
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institute, Essen
"Against all odds, Adorno has emerged at the dawn of the
twenty-first century as arguably the leading theoretical
inspiration of our time. These stimulating essays, written by fresh
as well as familiar commentators on his oeuvre, go a long way
towards explaining the power of his ideas and demonstrating their
abiding relevance." Martin Jay, University of California,
Berkeley
Nigel Gibson is Visiting Assistant Professor at the
Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson
College in Boston, where he teaches philosophy and postcolonial
studies. He is also a research associate at Harvard University and
at Brown University. He is editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999)
and co-editor, with George C. Bond, of Contested Terrain and
Contested Categories: Africa in Focus (2001).
Andrew Rubin is currently a doctoral candidate in the
Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
University. He is editor of The Edward Said Reader (2000),
and has written articles for a variety of national magazines and
newspapers, including The Nation.
Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson
College in Boston, where he teaches philosophy and postcolonial
studies. He is also a research associate at Harvard University and
at Brown University. He is editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999)
and co-editor, with George C. Bond, of Contested Terrain and
Contested Categories: Africa in Focus (2001).
Andrew Rubin is currently a doctoral candidate in the
Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
University. He is editor of The Edward Said Reader (2000),
and has written articles for a variety of national magazines and
newspapers, including The Nation.
