Theodor W Adorno: 24 books

Während ihres Exils auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten entfaltete sich ein intensiver Austausch zwischen dem Schriftsteller Thomas Mann und dem vierzig Jahre jüngeren Philosophen und Musiktheoretiker Theodor W. Adorno. Die beiden hier abgedruckten Briefe von Mann an Adorno, von 1943 und...

Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that...

"Dreams are as black as death." —Theodor W. Adorno 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...

This classic book by Theodor W. Adorno anticipates many of the themes that have since become common in contemporary philosophy: the critique of foundationalism, the illusions of idealism and the end of epistemology. It also foreshadows many of the key ideas that were developed by Adorno in his most...

Il pensiero di Theodor W. Adorno è attualmente oggetto di un’importante opera di riscoperta al centro della quale si situa, accanto alla parte più squisitamente filosofico-teoretica del suo pensiero, la sua filosofia della musica. Anziché concentrarsi esclusivamente sull’analisi dei fenomeni...

Punto focale della teoria critica della società, la riflessione sull’individualità s’intreccia con l’elaborazione delle opere maggiori della scuola di Francoforte. Raccogliendo per la prima volta il corpus di scritti e frammenti sull’individuo elaborati da Theodor W. Adorno tra il 1940 e...

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...

'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...

Adorno’s lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960–61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy. They also represent a continuation of a project that he shared with Walter Benjamin – ‘to demolish Heidegger’. Following the publication of the latter’s...

Die von Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno gemeinsam verfasste "Dialektik der Aufklärung" ist der wichtigste Text der Kritischen Theorie und zugleich eines der klassischen Werke der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Philosophische Kritik, Auseinandersetzung mit dem Faschismus und die...

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“Trasferire piante dal giardino dell`arte alla terra straniera del sapere, per poter individuare i piccoli cambiamenti di colore e di forma che in tal modo si manifestano. La cosa più importante è la delicatezza nell`afferrare, la cautela con cui l`opera viene rimossa con le sue radici, che poi...

Intellettuale tra i più importanti del Novecento, sociologo, filosofo, musicologo, Theodor W. Adorno è stato figura centrale della cosidetta Scuola di Francoforte. Scritto durante l'esilio americano, e pubblicato nel 1941, il saggio Sulla Popular Music offre un'analisi brillante e ancora oggi sorprendente...

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...