A companion to Adorno / edited by Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer, Max Pensky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Editors' Introduction
About the Editors
Part I Intellectual Foundations
Chapter 1 Adorno: A Biographical Sketch
References
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Adorno's Inaugural Lecture: The Actuality of Philosophy in the Age of Mass Production
1. Introduction
2. Idealism and Bourgeois Society
3. Weimar: Social Experience and Industrial Society
4. The Actuality of Philosophy and Aesthetic Modernism
5. Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Chapter 3 Reading Kierkegaard 1. Introduction
2. Part I How and Why Adorno Reads Kierkegaard: Letting the Thought-Image Appear
3. Part II What we Learn from Adorno's Kierkegaard: The Sustenance of Negative Meaning
References
Further Reading
Chapter 4 Guilt and Mourning: Adorno's Debt to and Critique of Benjamin
1. A Metaphysics of Language
2. Letting the Object Speak
3. Redeeming the Phenomena
4. Guilt or Mourning
References
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School
1. The Path: Modernity, Music, and the New (Adorno and Berg) 2. The Philosophy: A Dialectical Theory of the New Music (Adorno and Schoenberg)
3. The Legacy: A Philosophy's Aesthetic Aftermath (Adorno and Webern)
4. Difficulties
References
Further Reading
Part II Cultural Analysis
Chapter 6 The Culture Industry
1. Music and its Transmission
2. Dialectic, Form, Concept
3. The Silver Screen and Beyond
4. Afterlife of an Idea
5. Concluding Thoughts
References
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Adorno and Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism
1. Objections and Dilemmas
2. Complex Coherence 3. Long History and Levels of Specificity
4. The Image of "the Jews"
References
Further Reading
Chapter 8 Adorno and Jazz
1. "That's Not Jazz"
2. Adorno's Jazz Essay
3. Adorno's Empirical Limitations
4. "Interpretation Has a Lot to Learn from Jazz"
5. "What Jazz Is Really Saying in Social Terms"
6. Art and Objectivity
7. The "State of the Material"
8. Music, Philosophy, and Social Theory
References
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 9 Adorno's Democratic Modernism in America: Leaders and Educators as Political Artists 1. Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy
2. Epiphanies and Enlightenment: Adorno's Democratic Modernism
3. Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Chapter 10 Inhuman Methods for an Inhumane World: Adorno's Empirical Social Research, 1938-1950
1. Introduction
2. Using the European Approach
3. Adorno's Most Dangerous Thesis
4. Empirical Research Contra Empirical Verification
5. A Highly Promising Method
6. Outflanking the Research Racket
7. The Rigidity of Constructing Types
8. Empirical Research Presupposing its Own End
9. Conclusion
References

"This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a brief biographical overview of Adorno's life and thought, with an emphasis on the key turning points in his career. It discusses his childhood, his education in Frankfurt, his musical studies, his emigration first to Oxford and then to the United States, his return to Germany after World War Two, his tenure as professor at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and his prominence as a public intellectual, and his confrontation with students. Together with biographical details the chapter also offers a simple overview of Adorno's major concerns as a philosopher"-- Provided by publisher.

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