Theodor W. Adorno : one last genius / Detlev Claussen ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claussen, Detlev.

Standardized Title:

Theodor W. Adorno. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Philosophers--Germany--Biography.

Philosophers.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create "critical theory." An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno's day-and its ongoing importance in our own.

Contents:

Instead of an overture : no heirs

The house in Schone Aussicht : a Frankfurt childhood around 1910

From Teddie Wiesengrund to Dr. Wiesengrund-Adorno

Adorno as "non-identical" man

Transitions

Bertolt Brecht : "to those who come after us"

Theodor W. Adorno : "out of the firing-line"

Hanns Eisler, the non-identical brother

Fritz Lang, the American friend

Frankfurt transfer

Adorno as "identical" man

The palimpsest of life.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Originally published as Theodor W. Adorno: Ein letztes Genie, (c) S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-418) and index.

ISBN:

9780674029590

0674029593

OCLC:

1024007333