Bøger af Theodor W. Adorno

* The correspondence of Theodor Adorno and Thomas Mann documents a rare encounter of creative tension between literary tradition and aesthetic modernism spanning the years 1943-1955. * The letters offer the reader a fascinating insight into the lives of two of the most important figures of twentieth-century intellectual life.

Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven's music. This book brings together all of Beethoven's music in relation to the society in which he lived.

Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future course of history was his feelings of solidarity with the victims and losers.

This Book, provides an invaluable introduction to his historical and conceptual engagement with sociology.

This book collects together Adornos manifold implications for musical interpretation. His reflections lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. However, it is the quality of uncertainty in his reflections that indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought today.

Makes Adorno's lectures on moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers Gives students an accessible introduction to some of the topics discussed in Adorno's more difficult work An important new resource for scholars drawing on Adorno's thought.

Makes Adornoa s lectures on metaphysics available for the first time to English--speaking readersExamines the history of metaphysics from modern to classical timesAn ideal introduction to the central preoccupations of Adornoa s difficult masterpiece, Negative Dialectics.

The author, a noted literary critic, presents a selection of his thought on Balzac, Valery, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, Hoelderlin, lyric poetry, realism, the essay and the contemporary novel.

This text analyzes Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. It examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia.

This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture.

Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works - Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the pressing political, cultural, and philosophical concerns of the postwar era. The pieces in Critical Models reflect the intellectually provocative as well as the practical Adorno as he addresses such issues as the dangers of ideological conformity, the fragility of democracy, educational reform, the influence of television and radio, and the aftermath of fascism. This new edition includes an introduction by Lydia Goehr, a renowned scholar in philosophy, aesthetic theory, and musicology. Goehr illuminates Adorno's ideas as well as the intellectual, historical, and critical contexts that shaped his postwar thinking.

In 1947, Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing "Philosophy of New Music". Presented with an introduction by distinguished translator, Robert Hullot-Kentor, this book looks at Adorno's illustrious and influential oeuvre.

The major work and Adorno''s culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author''s own vision of dialectics.

Lecture course by Adorno focusing on Kantian categories of moral philosophy.

The reader witnesses the process by which two individuals come together.

A psychoanalytically informed analysis of the rhetorical and conceptual mechanisms with which postwar Germans most often denied responsibility for the Nazi past. It provides important perspectives on postwar German political culture, on the dynamics of collective memory, and on Adorno's intellectual legacies.

Th. W. Adorno udgav sin bog om Gustav Mahler i 1960, og den er med sine banebrydende indfaldsvinkler et centralt værk i Mahler-forskningen. Den indskriver sig som et led i Adornos formulering af det modernes projekt og udgør sammen med Wagner og ´Den ny musiks filosofi´ tyngdepunktet i hans musikteoretiske forfatterskab.

Th. W. Adorno skrev sin Wagner-analyse i 1937-38, mens han befandt sig i eksil, og nazismens fremmarch danner historisk baggrund for tekstens tilblivelse. Forsøget på en politisk demaskering af den store komponist må ses som et led i Frankfurterskolens bestræbelse på at bestemme det nazistiske voldsherredømme som del af en større historisk proces: Hvad der var gløder og flammer hos Wagner, er i bogens nu en brand over Europa