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Synopsis:
He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno’s day—and its ongoing importance in our own.
The biography begins at the shining moment of the German bourgeoisie, in a world dominated by liberals willing to extend citizenship to refugees fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe. Detlev Claussen follows Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–1969) from his privileged life as a beloved prodigy to his intellectual coming of age in Weimar Germany and Vienna; from his exile during the Nazi years, first to England, then to the United States, to his emergence as the Adorno we know now in the perhaps not-so-unlikely setting of Los Angeles. There in 1943 with his collaborator Max Horkheimer, Adorno developed critical theory, whose key insight—that to be entertained is to give one’s consent—helped define the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century.
In capturing the man in his complex relationships with some of the century’s finest minds—including, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann, Siegfried Kracauer, Georg Lukács, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht—Claussen reveals how much we have yet to learn from Theodor Adorno, and how much his life can tell us about ourselves and our time.
About the Author: Detlev Claussen is a journalist and a Professor of Social Theory, Culture, and Sociology at the University of Hanover.
Title: Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very good
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A little shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Ink MARKINGS in text. Otherwise a square, tight, book. Index. vii, 440 pp. Seller Inventory # 050368
Book Description Hardcover. Yellow paper boards with blue cloth spine, yellow and green and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover, 440 pp., 18 BW illus. Considers the life and work of German philosopher Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969). "In capturing the man in his complex relationships with some of the century's finest minds -- including, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann, Siegfried Kracauer, Georg Lukacs, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht -- Claussen reveals how much we have yet to learn from Theodor Adorno, and how much his life can tell us about ourselves and our time." (dj). VG- (Ex-art library, with spine label and i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, otherwise clean.). Seller Inventory # 160008
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Belknap / Harvard University Press, 2008; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated; [viii], 440pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of boards, stamped yellow titling remains bright and bold; text also very good. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 302611
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