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Mehr als fünfzig Jahre nach seinem Tod ist immer noch höchst umstritten, worin das Vermächtnis Theodor W. Adornos besteht. Viele sehen in ihm den Philosophen der kompromisslosen Negativität, der gnostischen Finsternis, auch der allumfassenden, maßstabslosen Kritik. Selbst in der breiteren Öffentlichkeit hat sich das Bild vom Denker der totalisierenden Verzweiflung, des »Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen« verfestigt - bis zum Klischee. ...

Readers of Theodor Adorno often have understood him as a "totalizing negativist." If it truly is the case that Adorno saw modern society as a realm of complete falsehood, however, his own social theory is unintelligible. In A Precarious Happiness, Peter E. Gordon aims to redeem Adorno from this negativist interpretation by showing that it arises from a basic misunderstanding of his work. Pushing against entrenched interpretations, Gordon argue...

Volume 2 surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. It focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including phenomenology, existentialism, conservatism and critical movements including decolonization, structuralism and post-structuralism.

It has been fifty years since Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory was first published in 1970, a year after his death. The work appeared at a historical moment when political tension on the left was at its height and the movements of pop art and postmodernism began eclipsing the modernist aesthetic values Adorno cherished. Aesthetic Theory was met with initial resistance, in part because its aesthetic criteria appeared antiquated. This issue rec...

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School addresses the many early concerns of critical theory and brings those concerns into direct engagement with our shared world today. In this volume, a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines revisits the philosophical and political contributions

An exploration of religion's role in secular, modern politics, written by a scholar of critical theory. This book takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin's image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: "Nothing of theological content will persist without being transformed, every content will have to put itself to the test of mig...

This outstanding Companion proves the usual assumption wrong that there is no possibility today to contribute something new and original to the work of Theodor W. Adorno. The three editors, all equally superb experts of his philosophy, have managed with circumspection and discretion to collect thoroughly stimulating articles that together open up a novel and fresh perspective on this central figure of critical theory. Everyone who's keeping up...

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School addresses the many early concerns of critical theory and brings those concerns into direct engagement with our shared world today. In this volume, a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines revisit the philosophical and political contributions

From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism, in Heidegger, an impresario for a "jargon of authenticity" cloaking its idealism in an aura of pseudo-concreteness and neo-romantic kitsch. Even in t...

In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy. This title shows how the life and work of these philosophers remained closely intertwined.

-> Liebling, ich habe die Kinder geschrumpft (USA 1989, 89 Min., FSK 6): Rick Moranis, spielt hier den zerstreuten Erfinder, der versehentlich seine Kinder auf die Größe einer Bleistiftspitze, schrumpfen lässt. Durch einen unglücklichen Zufall landen diese im Papierkorb und gelangen mit dem Müll in den Garten, ... für die Winzlinge ein Dschungel der Gefahren. Sie müssen gegen riesenhafte Insekten kämpfen, waghalsige Verfolgungsjagden auf den...

Peter E. Gordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University and the author of Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany.

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