Things beyond resemblance : collected essays on Theodor W. Adorno / Robert Hullot-Kentor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hullot-Kentor, Robert.

Series:

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most distinguished American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers together sixteen essays he has written about the philosopher over the past twenty years. The opening essay, ""Origin Is the Goal,"" pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and p

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Origin Is the Goal; Back to Adorno; Things Beyond Resemblance; The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg; Critique of the Organic: Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic; Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music; Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and "The Essay as Form"; What Is Mechanical Reproduction?; Adorno Without Quotation; Popular Music and "The Aging of the New Music"; The Impossibility of Music; Apple Criticizes Tree of Knowledge: A Review of One Sentence

Right Listening and a New Type of Human BeingEthics, Aesthetics, and the Recovery of the Public World; Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno; Introduction to T.W. Adorno's "The Idea of Natural-History"; The Idea of Natural-History Theodor W. Adorno; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-304) and index.

ISBN:

9781322352886

1322352887

9780231510035

0231510039

OCLC:

818856074