A companion to Adorno / edited by Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer, Max Pensky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Peter Eli, editor.

Hammer, Espen, editor.

Pensky, Max, editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 71.

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Adorno, Theodor W.,-1903-1969.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (683 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, [2020]

Summary:

A definitive contribution to scholarship on Adorno, bringing together the foremost experts in the field As one of the leading continental philosophers of the last century, and one of the pioneering members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor W.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Editors' Introduction

About the Editors

Part I Intellectual Foundations

Chapter 1 Adorno: A Biographical Sketch

References

Further Reading

Chapter 2 Adorno's Inaugural Lecture: The Actuality of Philosophy in the Age of Mass Production

1. Introduction

2. Idealism and Bourgeois Society

3. Weimar: Social Experience and Industrial Society

4. The Actuality of Philosophy and Aesthetic Modernism

5. Conclusion

Chapter 3 Reading Kierkegaard

2. Part I How and Why Adorno Reads Kierkegaard: Letting the Thought-Image Appear

3. Part II What we Learn from Adorno's Kierkegaard: The Sustenance of Negative Meaning

Chapter 4 Guilt and Mourning: Adorno's Debt to and Critique of Benjamin

1. A Metaphysics of Language

2. Letting the Object Speak

3. Redeeming the Phenomena

4. Guilt or Mourning

Notes

Chapter 5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School

1. The Path: Modernity, Music, and the New (Adorno and Berg)

2. The Philosophy: A Dialectical Theory of the New Music (Adorno and Schoenberg)

3. The Legacy: A Philosophy's Aesthetic Aftermath (Adorno and Webern)

4. Difficulties

Part II Cultural Analysis

Chapter 6 The Culture Industry

1. Music and its Transmission

2. Dialectic, Form, Concept

3. The Silver Screen and Beyond

4. Afterlife of an Idea

5. Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 7 Adorno and Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism

1. Objections and Dilemmas

2. Complex Coherence

3. Long History and Levels of Specificity

4. The Image of "the Jews"

Chapter 8 Adorno and Jazz.

1. "That's Not Jazz"

2. Adorno's Jazz Essay

3. Adorno's Empirical Limitations

4. "Interpretation Has a Lot to Learn from Jazz"

5. "What Jazz Is Really Saying in Social Terms"

6. Art and Objectivity

7. The "State of the Material"

8. Music, Philosophy, and Social Theory

Chapter 9 Adorno's Democratic Modernism in America: Leaders and Educators as Political Artists

1. Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy

2. Epiphanies and Enlightenment: Adorno's Democratic Modernism

3. Conclusion

Chapter 10 Inhuman Methods for an Inhumane World: Adorno's Empirical Social Research, 1938-1950

2. Using the European Approach

3. Adorno's Most Dangerous Thesis

4. Empirical Research Contra Empirical Verification

5. A Highly Promising Method

6. Outflanking the Research Racket

7. The Rigidity of Constructing Types

8. Empirical Research Presupposing its Own End

9. Conclusion

Part III History and Domination

Chapter 11 Adorno and Blumenberg: Nonconceptuality and the Bilderverbot

Chapter 12 Philosophy of History

1. Liberation and Its Caricatures

2. Kant: Antagonism and Peace

3. Hegel: Determinate Negation and World History

4. Marx: Misery and Happiness

5. History, Possibility, and Nonidentity

6. Suffering and Expression

Chapter 13 The Anthropology in

1. The Point of Their Critical Anthropology

2. Investigating the Prototype of the Self

3. The Logic of Sacrifice

4. Cunning as Protoreflexivity

5. Cunning as Self-Deception

6. Concluding Remarks

Chapter 14 Adorno's Reception of Weber and Lukács

1. Introduction.

2. Weber and Lukács on Instrumental Rationality and Reification

3. Adorno's Critique of the Enlightenment

4. Consciousness and Reification: The Negative Dialectic

5. Aesthetic Experience as Subjective Force-Field

6. The Transformation of Critique

Chapter 15 Adorno's Aesthetic Model of Social Critique

2. Causal Critique and Intrinsic Critique

3. Aesthetic Applications: "High" Art

4. The Culture Industry and Popular Culture

5. Micrological Analysis in

6. Pushing Back Against Adorno's Methods

7. Conclusion

Chapter 16 The Critique of the Enlightenment

2.Dialectic of Enlightenment and History

3.Dialectic of Enlightenment and Agency

4.Dialectic of Enlightenment and Kant

5. On the Importance of Freud

6. Conclusion

Part IV Social Theory and Empirical Inquiry

Chapter 17 "Nothing is True Except the Exaggerations": The Legacy of The Authoritarian Personality

Chapter 18 Exposing Antagonisms: Adorno on the Possibilities of Sociology

2. Disappearing Contradictions

3. Taming Conflict

4. Sociological Approaches

Chapter 19 Adorno and Marx

1. Philosophy and/or Sociology?

2. Sociology of the Commodity-Form

3. Marx's Social Ontology: "Facticity of the Conceptuality of Exchange"

Chapter 20 Adorno's Three Contributions to a Theory of Mass Psychology and Why They Matter

1. Mass Psychology and Critical Theory

2. Freud and the Kantian Subject

3. The Group

4. Authoritarian vs. Democratic Psychology

5. The 1960s

Notes.

Chapter 21 Adorno and Postwar German Society

1. Professor, Expert, Critic, Counselor: Adorno in the Federal Republic

2. Society - Germany - Postwar: The Components of Adorno's Analysis

3. The Psychobiography and Therapy of Germany: "Working Through the Past"

4. The Intellectual as Pedagogue in the Administered Society: Adorno's Postwar Enlightenment

5. "Why Did You Return?" Adorno and the Nation

Part V Aesthetics

Chapter 22 Aesthetic Autonomy

1. Experience as Primary

2. Truth

3. Cognitivism, Reference, and Determination

4. Conclusion

Chapter 23 Adorno and Literary Criticism

1. Culture and Literary Criticism in Post-War Germany

2. Adorno's Philosophical Aesthetics

3. Heine: Coming Home

4. Hölderlin: Hearkening to Nature

5. An Ethical Criticism

Note

Chapter 24 Adorno as a Modernist Writer

1. Modern Life and Modernism

2. Cavell on Modernism in Philosophy

3. Modernism and Epiphanic Form

4. Adorno on Modernism

5. Modernist Style in Minima Moralia

6. Some Weaknesses in Adorno's Style: Constanze

7. Modernist Philosophy as a Continuing Task

Chapter 25 Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

1. Aesthetic Theory: Threat or Menace?

2. Kant and Hegel

3. Form and Content: Mastery Over Material

4. End of Art: Good, Bad, and Forever

5. Art and Its Other Others

6. Expression, Semblance, and Mimesis

Chapter 26 Aesthetic Theory as Social Theory

1. Introduction: Sociology of Art as a Challenge

2. The Early Model

3. Postwar Revisions

4. Adorno's Late Work: Aesthetic Theory

Chapter 27 Adorno, Music, and the Ineffable

1. Ineffable Utopias

2. Exact Listening.

3. Inconsistent Listening

4. Philosophy and the Ineffable

Chapter 28 Adorno and Opera

1. Opera, Critical Theory, and Sociological Musicology

2. The [Special] Case of Wagner

Part VI Negative Dialectics

Chapter 29 What Is Negative Dialectics?: Adorno's Reevaluation of Hegel

Chapter 30 Adorno's Critique of Heidegger

1. Adorno's Philosophical Criticisms of Heidegger

2. Concepts and Hypostatization

3. Parallels

Chapter 31 Concept and Object: Adorno's Critique of Kant

1. S aturday Afternoons with Kant

2. The Concept of the Concept and Constitutive Subjectivity

3. "To Break Through the Appearance of Total Identity"

4. Non-conceptuality: Mimesis, Expression, Presentation

5. Transcendental and Empirical, Subject and Object

6. The Thing-in-itself

Chapter 32 Critique and Disappointment: Negative Dialectics as Late Philosophy

Chapter 33 Negative Dialectics and Philosophical Truth

1. A Changed Philosophy

2. Philosophy and Singularity

3. Persuasion and Reportability

4. From Philosophy to Textual Criticism

Chapter 34 Adorno and Scholem: The Heretical Redemption of Metaphysics

2. Religious Mysticism and Material Life: Historical Background and the Early Conversations

3. The Context of Blindness: Mysticism, Myth, and Reason

4. Antinomianism and Resistance: Damaged Life and the Critique of Normativity

5. Heretical Redemption: Theology, Metaphysics, and Materialism

Chapter 35 Adorno's Concept of Metaphysical Experience.

1. Metaphysics and Ambivalence in Modern Philosophy.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781119146926

1119146925

9781119146940

1119146941

OCLC:

1108789261