Adorno: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631212485 ISBN 13: 9780631212485

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

Adorno: A Critical Reader presents a collection of new essays by many of the world's top critics that examine Adorno's lasting impact on the arts, politics, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

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Book Description:

An important examination of one of this century's major intellectuals, this book will appeal to those interested in the origins of cultural studies & critical theory.

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Adorno: A Critical Reader presents a collection of new essays by many of the world's top critics, who examine Adorno's lasting impact on the arts, politics, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

Few intellectuals captured as much critical attention in the late twentieth century as Theodor W. Adorno. A growing number of his writings, lectures, and addresses have recently become available in English, a development that has inspired a reassessment of his oeuvre and placed Adorno at the center of debates about the role and responsibilities of the intellectual.

Readers interested in the origins of cultural studies and critical theory will find this book an important examination of the broad work of one of the major intellectuals of the twentieth century. Those interested in the arts, politics, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology will delight in this important collection of essays that re-evaluate Adorno's work in the context of the many fields that his writings have shaped irreversibly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631212485
• ISBN 13: 9780631212485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 458
• Editor: Gibson Nigel C., Rubin Andrew