Adorno : a political biography / Lorenz Jäger ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
"Theodor W. Adorno - philosopher, cultural critic, sociologist and music theorist - was one of the most important German intellectuals of the twentieth century. This concise, readable life is the first attempt to look at his philosophical and literary work in its essential political context.&qu...
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London :
Yale University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Teddie
- Heartbeat of expectation
- In search of vocational training
- Philosophy and music
- A strict demand for justice : the Institute for Social Research
- Kitsch, death and crisis
- Stargazing
- Twilight
- Early years of exile
- Brave new world
- 'Dialectic of enlightenment'
- Schoenberg, Faustus and Stravinsky
- Authoritarian personality and pathologization of the Centre
- 'Perhaps we should go to Germany'
- The Frankfurt school
- Resistance as a message
- Student conflict
- Epilogue : the abandoned room.