ADORNO W. THEODOR

(H/B) GUILT AND DEFENSE
Beginning in 1949, Theodor W. Adorno and other members of the reconstituted Frankfurt Institute for Social Research undertook a massive empirical study of German opinions about the legacies of the Nazis, applying and modifying techniques they had learned during their U.S. exile. They published their results in 1955 as a research monograph edited by Friedrich Pollock. The study's qualitative results are published here for the first time in English as Guilt and Defense, a psychoanalytically informed analysis of the rhetorical and conceptual ...
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CAN ONE LIVE AFTER AUSCHWITZ?
This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the "Western legacy of positivity," the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. The prime task of philosophy then remains to reflect on its own failure, its own complicity in such events. Yet in linking the question of philosophy to historical occurrence, Adorno seems not to have abandoned his paradoxical, life-long hope that phi...
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THE JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY

(P/B) THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE 1928-1940
The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down to us from that notable age of barbarism, the twentieth century. Benjamin and Adorno formed a uniquely powerful pair. Benjamin, riddle-like in his personality and given to tactical evasion, and Adorno, full of his own importance, alternately support and compete with each other throughout the correspondence, until its imminent tragic end becomes ap...
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ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ

(P/B) NEGATIVE DIALECTICS

(P/B) COMPOSING FOR THE FILMS

(P/B) THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE 1928-1940
The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno....
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BEETHOVEN
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. Adorno identifies three periods in Beethoven's work, arguing that the thematic unity of the first and second periods begins to break down in the third. Adorno follows this progressive disintegration of organic un...
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