After providing a brief overview of Adorno's life, Schweppenhauser turns to the theorist's core philosophical concepts, including post-Kantian critique, determinate negation, and the primacy of the object, as well as his view of the Enlightenment as a code for world domination, his diagnosis of modern mass culture as a program of social control, and his understanding of modernist aesthetics as a challenge to conceive an alternative politics. Along the way, Schweppenhauser illuminates the works widely considered Adorno's most important achievements: "Minima Moralia," "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (co-authored with Horkheimer), and "Negative Dialectics." Adorno wrote much of the first two of these during his years in California (1938-49), where he lived near Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, whom he assisted with the musical aesthetics at the center of Mann's novel "Doctor Faustus."
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After providing a brief overview of Adorno's life, Schweppenhauser turns to the theorist's core philosophical concepts, including post-Kantian critique, determinate negation, and the primacy of the object, as well as his view of the Enlightenment as a code for world domination, his diagnosis of modern mass culture as a program of social control, and his understanding of modernist aesthetics as a challenge to conceive an alternative politics. Along the way, Schweppenhauser illuminates the works widely considered Adorno's most important achievements: "Minima Moralia," "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (co-authored with Horkheimer), and "Negative Dialectics." Adorno wrote much of the first two of these during his years in California (1938-49), where he lived near Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, whom he assisted with the musical aesthetics at the center of Mann's novel "Doctor Faustus."
Imprint | Duke University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Post-Contemporary Interventions |
Release date | April 2009 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | April 2009 |
Translators | James Rolleston |
Authors | Gerhard Schweppenhauser |
Dimensions | 215 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 182 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-4471-1 |
Barcode | 9780822344711 |
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LSN | 0-8223-4471-8 |