Prisms

Prisms

by Adorno, Theodor W.

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Prisms, essays in cultural criticism and society, is the work of a critic and scholar who has had a marked influence on contemporary American and German thought. It displays the unusual combination of intellectual depth, scope, and philosophical rigor that Adorno was able to bring to his subjects, whether he was writing about astrology columns in Los Angeles newspapers, the special problems of German academics immigrating to the United States during the Nazi years, or Hegel's influence on Marx.…

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  • Full title :Prisms / by Theodor W. Adorno.

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Prisms, essays in cultural criticism and society, is the work of a critic and scholar who has had a marked influence on contemporary American and German thought. It displays the unusual combination of intellectual depth, scope, and philosophical rigor that Adorno was able to bring to his subjects, whether he was writing about astrology columns in Los Angeles newspapers, the special problems of German academics immigrating to the United States during the Nazi years, or Hegel's influence on Marx. In these essays, Adorno explores a variety of topics, ranging from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kafka's The Castle to Jazz, Bach, Schoenberg, Proust, Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, museums, Spengler, and more. His writing throughout is knowledgeable, witty, and at times archly opinionated, but revealing a sensitivity to the political, cultural, economic, and aesthetic connections that lie beneath the surfaces of everyday life. Prisms is included in the series, Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1983
  • Edition:1st MIT Press paperback edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):MIT Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1983

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0262266849, 9780262266840
  • oclc:on1076546629
  • LC Classification:HM621
  • Dewey Decimal:306

Table of Contents

Series Forward -- Forward / Theodor W. Adorno -- Introduction: translating the untranslatable / Samuel M. Weber -- Cultural criticism and society -- The sociology of knowledge and its consciousness -- Spengler after the decline -- Veblen's attack on culture -- Aldous Huxley and utopia -- Perennial fashion -- jazz -- Bach defended against his devotees -- Arnold Schoenberg, 1874-195 1 -- Valery Proust Museum -- The George-Hofmannsthal Correspondence, 1891-1906 -- A portrait of Walter Benjamin -- Notes on Kafka.

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Culture PHILOSOPHY/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Polit…

Writers

Adorno, Theodor W.

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