ADORNO W. THEODOR

(P/B) CRITICAL MODELS
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...
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Η ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΙΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΦΩΤΙΣΜΟΥ
Στο εξαίρετο αυτό βιβλίο οι δύο μεγάλοι γερμανοί φιλόσοφοι διερευνούν όλες τις πτυχές του ακόλουθου θεμελιακού ερωτήματος: για ποιο λόγο δεν μπόρεσε ο δυτικός πολιτισμός, παρά την εκπληκτική επιστημονική και τεχνολογική πρόοδό του, να χτίσει έναν κόσμο χωρίς πείνα, πόλεμο, δυστυχία και καταπίεση; Για τους συγγραφείς, η απάντηση είναι πως οι μεγάλες καινοτομίες του πολιτισμού αυτού πληρώθηκαν με μια "διαρκώς αυξανόμενη παρακμή της θεωρητικής συνείδησης". Η υλικοτεχνική πρόοδος εδραίωσε την ανθρώπινη κυριαρχία στην φύση μετατρέποντας το καθ...
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ΤΕΧΝΗ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΖΙΚΗ ΚΟΥΛΤΟΥΡΑ
Κατά τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες του αιώνα μας, ο δυτικός "πολιτισμένος" κόσμος, ο κόσμος της υλικής αφθονίας και της ιδεολογικής αποτελμάτωσης, χαρακτηρίζεται και στηρίζεται στην εμφάνιση της μαζικής κουλτούρας. Η μαζική κουλτούρα, που συμβαδίζει με την εξάλειψη του λαϊκού πολιτισμού της υπαίθρου και των πόλεων και που έβαλε στο περιθώριο την γνήσια, την αυθεντική τέχνη, κατασκευάστηκε για να γεμίσει τον ελεύθερο χρόνο του σύγχρονου ανθρώπου. Όλοι σήμερα, ανεξάρτητα από την κοινωνική ή εθνική τους προέλευση, ανεξάρτητα από την κοινωνική κατη...
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(P/B) QUASI UNA FANTASIA
This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno both reconsiders and refines his damning indictment of the composer in Philosophy on Modern Music. Throughout, Adorno is sustained by the conviction that music is supremely human because it is capable of communicating inhumanity while resisting it. His belief in the benevolent and transforma...
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METAPHYSICS
This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics. Metaphysics for Adorno is defined by a central tension between concepts and immediate facts. Adorno traces this dualism back to Aristotle, whom he sees as the founder of metaphysics. In Aristotle it appears as an unresolved tension between form and matter. This basic split, in Adorno's interp...
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(P/B) PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN MUSIC
In this classic work, Adorno revolutionized music theory through an analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Philosophy of Modern Music presents a profound study of key musical works of the twentieth century. But it is more than this because, as always with Adorno, a wide range of social and cultural questions are brought to bear on the analysis. In many ways, Philosophy of Modern Music is a product of Adorno's exile in the United States, where he wrote the book while National Socialism fe...
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(H/B) CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-1935
Adorno was twenty-one years old when he traveled to Vienna in March 1925 to study musical composition with Alban Berg. Twenty years later, Adorno wrote: "how much of my writing will remain is beyond my knowledge or my control, but there is one claim I wish to stake: that I understand the language of birds," It was no less than the desire to learn to speak this language that drew him to Berg. Adorno already knew what he wanted to drew to compose before he went to Berg, and the aim of his stay in Vienna and the following years was to learn t...
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(P/B) INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
This Book, provides an invaluable introduction to his historical and conceptual engagement with sociology....
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(P/B) PROBLEMS OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY
This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several volumes of Adorno's unpublished writings which are currently being published in Germany, and which will be published in translation by Polity. The book is organized around an account of Kant's moral theory, and introduces most of the central topics of Adorno's far more difficult work Negative Dialectics. He examines concepts such as the primacy of practical reason, the relation between freed...
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(H/B) TOWARDS A NEW MANIFESTO
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of "critical theory", Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism. Towards a New Manifesto shows the two philosophers in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas. This book is a record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to the production of a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto. A philosophical jam-session in which the...
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(H/B) DREAM NOTES
Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared in his lifetime. Dream Notes offers a selection of Adornos writings on dreams that span the last twenty-five years of his life. Readers of Adorno who are accustomed to high-powered reflections on philosophy, music and culture may well find them disconcerting: they provide an amazingly frank and uninhibited account of his inner desires, guilt feelings and anxieties. Brot...
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(H/B) CORRESPONDENCE, 1943-1955
In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The writer expressly invited the philosopher to consider, with me, how such a work and I mean Leverkhns work could more or less be practically realized. Their close collaboration on questions concerning the character of the fictional composers putatively late works (Adorno produced specific sketches which are included as an appendix to the present volume) effectively laid the basis for a further ...
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Τ' ΑΣΤΡΑ ΚΑΤΩ ΣΤΗ ΓΗ
Η ομάδα των μελετών στην οποία ανήκει η ανάλυση περιεχομένου της αστρολογικής στήλης των Los Angeles Times θέτει ως στόχο της την διερεύνηση της φύσης και των κινήτρων ορισμένων κοινωνικών φαινομένων ευρείας κλίμακας στα οποία περικλείονται ανορθολογικά στοιχεία μ' έναν ιδιαίτερο τρόπο - αναμεμειγμένα με ό,τι θα μπορούσαμε να ονομάσουμε ψευδο-ορθολογικότητα. Η αστρολογία πρέπει να θεωρηθεί ως ένα μικρό μοντέλο της πολύ ευρύτερης τροφοδοσίας της κοινωνίας με παρανοϊκές προδιαθέσεις. Είναι σε τέτοιο βαθμό σύμπτωμα οπισθοδρόμησης της κοινωνία...
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Η ΙΔΕΑ ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ
Σε αυτή την έκδοση συμπεριλαμβάνονται δυο μικρά, αλλά ανυπολόγιστης σημαντικότητας κείμενα του Τέοντορ Β. Αντόρνο, κείμενα της λεγόμενης νεανικής περιόδου, τα οποία επιπλέον σηματοδοτούν έναν από τους σταθμούς της διαμόρφωσης αυτού που αργότερα ονομάστηκε Κριτική Θεωρία. Το «Die Idee der Naturgeschichte» που είναι ο βασικός κορμός αυτής της έκδοσης, κείμενο αρχικά μιας διάλεξης, δημοσιεύθηκε για πρώτη φορά στο Archiv Fur Sozialforschung το 1932. Ένα χρόνο νωρίτερα είχε γραφτεί το κείμενο που στην παρούσα έκδοση θέσαμε ως εισαγωγή, το «Die ...
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(P/B) CURRENT OF MUSIC
Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W. Adorno lived in New York City as a refugee from 1938 until 1941. During these years, he was intensively involved in a study of how the recently developed techniques for the nation-wide transmission of music over radio were transforming the perception of music itself. This broad ranging radio research was conceived as nothing less than an investigation, partly empirical, of Walter Benjamin's speculative claims for the emancipatory potential of art in the age of its mechanical reproduction. The results of Adorno...
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ΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΣΗ
Ο ΓΚΑΓΙΟ ΠΕΤΡΟΒΙΤΣ σπούδασε φιλοσοφία στο Ζάγκρεμπ, στη Μόσχα, στο Λένινγκραντ, στην Αγγλία και στις ΗΠΑ. Είναι καθηγητής της φιλοσοφίας στο πανεπιστήμιο του Ζάγκρεμπ και ένας από τους κυριότερους εκπρόσωπους της λεγόμενης "γιουγκοσλάβικης μαρξιστικής φιλοσοφίας" καθώς και ένας από τους σημαντικότερους συνεργάτες του παγκοσμίου κύρους φιλοσοφικού περιοδικού "Praxis" που εκδίδεται στο Ζάγκρεμπ. Ο ΒΕΡΝΕΡ ΧΟΦΜΑΝ γεννήθηκε το 1922 και σπούδασε οικονομικές επιστήμες στο Μόναχο και κοινωνικές στο Βιλχελμσχάφεν. Από το 1962 δίδαξε στο πανεπιστήμι...
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(H/B) LETTERS TO HIS PARENTS, 1939-1951
'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ` So begins Adorno's letter to his parents in May 1939, welcoming them to Cuba where they had just arrived after fleeing from Nazi Germany at the last minute. At the end of 1939 his parents moved again to Florida and then to New York, where they lived from August 1940 until the end of their lives. It is only with Adorno's move to California at the end of 1941 that his letters to his parents start arriving once more, re...
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(P/B) NEGATIVE DIALECTICS
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AESTHETIC THEORY
Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Analysing the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful, Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it ...
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HISTORY AND FREEDOM
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. As for the future, the course of events was to remain open-ended; instead of finality, he remained committed to a H?lderlin-like openness. This trace of the messianic has what he called the colour of th...
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