"This book studies the concept of 'event' as it relates to Theodor W. Adorno's philosophy and critical social theory"--.
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"This book reconstructs a wide-ranging dialogue between Walter Benjamin's major essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities and Theodor Adorno's meditation on the Odyssey in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Dornbach leverages the concept of caesura to identify utopian moments in a variety …
"This book argues that Adorno's writings allow us to address what is arguably the central challenge of modern philosophy: how to picture a world beyond suffering and injustice without betraying its vital impulse. By re-appraising his writings on politics, philosophy, and art, Se…
"This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a brief biographical overview of Adorno's life and thought, with an emphasis on the key turning points in his career. It discusses his childhood, his education in Frankfurt, his musical studies, his emigration first to Oxford …
"In the wake of Martin Heidegger's 1933 Nazi turn, the German Jewish Frankfurt School thinkers Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse understandably saw him as their enemy. This book explores the generative influence that Heidegger's thinking had on the Frankfurt…
"This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the …
"Built upon the principle that divides and elevates humans above other animals, humanism is the cornerstone of a worldview that sanctifies inequality and threatens all animal life. Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal analyses this state of affairs and suggests an alternat…
"[Author] argues that Adorno's key motifs -- dialectic, immanent critique, constellation -- are prescriptions not merely for critical thinking, but also for critical writing. Hence, Adorno urges a 'poetics of critique' that is every bit as critical as anything else in his 'criti…
