UID:
almafu_9959328085702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xix, 660 pages).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781119146933
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1119146933
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1119146925
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9781119146940
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1119146941
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9781119146926
Serie:
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 71
Inhalt:
"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"--
Anmerkung:
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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: A companion to Adorno Hoboken : Wiley, 2019. ISBN 9781119146919
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119146940
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119146940
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