Notes to Literature: Volume One (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Adorno, Theodor W.

ISBN 10: 0231063326 / ISBN 13: 9780231063326

Published by Columbia University Press, 1991

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing: book and dust jacket are in Near Fine condition. Clean, tight, and unmarked. Mylar protected. Translated by Sherry Weber Nicholsen. Essays on Eichendorff, Heine, Surrealism, Balzac, Valéry, Proust, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and other. 284 pp., with notes and index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes to Literature: Volume One (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231063326
• ISBN 13: 9780231063326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Critical Theory
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F

About the Author

Paul Kottman (PhD, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley; Habilitation, Aesthetics, Scientifica Nazionale, Italy) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, with affiliation in Philosophy, at the New School. He is the author of Disinheriting the Globe: Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Hopkins, 2009), A Politics of the Scene (Stanford, 2008), and Love as Human Freedom (Stanford, forthcoming), the editor of Philosophers on Shakespeare (Stanford, 2009) and The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy and Early Modernity (Fordham, 2017), and the translator of Cavarero: For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression (Stanford, 2005). He is also the editor of the series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities (Stanford).