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Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Robert Hullot-Kentor
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Description for Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Hardback. Theodor W Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. This collection gathers together sixteen essays about the philosopher. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 344 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most distinguished American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers together sixteen essays he has written about the philosopher over the past twenty years. The opening essay, "Origin Is the Goal," pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and political situation of the United States. "Back to Adorno" examines Adorno's idea that sacrifice is the primordial form of human domination; "Second Salvage" reconstructs Adorno's unfinished study of the transformation of music in radio transmission; and "What Is Mechanical Reproduction" revisits Adorno's criticism of Walter Benjamin. Further essays cover a broad range of topics: Adorno's affinities with Wallace Stevens and Nabokov, his complex relationship with Kierkegaard and psychoanalysis, and his critical study of popular music. Many of these essays have been revised, with new material added that emphasizes the relevance of Adorno's thought to the United States today. Things Beyond Resemblance is a timely and richly analytical collection crucial to the study of critical theory, aesthetics, continental philosophy, and Adorno.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136587
SKU
V9780231136587
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About Robert Hullot-Kentor
Robert Hullot-Kentor has taught philosophy, literature, and the arts at Harvard, Boston University, Stanford, and Long Island University. He has translated several of Adorno's major works, including Aesthetic Theory, and has recently published Current of Music, a reconstruction of Adorno's unfinished study of radio broadcast music.
Reviews for Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Here, under the optic of the artist, Adorno's philosophy once again begins to breathe...
Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archiv, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings I urge anyone who entertains doubts about the emperor's attires to read Hullot-Kentor's brilliant and definitive deconstruction of Jameson in Things Beyond Resemblance.
Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine Although each section was written independently and can stand on its own, an exhilarating effect is produced by situating them together-much in the same way that an individual painting is transformed when thoughtfully incorporated into an exhibit.
Thomas Wheatland, Assumption College Things Beyond Resemblance is a book Adorno scholars will appreciate... [and] should prove to be a valuable resource.
Thomas Wheatland H-German
Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archiv, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings I urge anyone who entertains doubts about the emperor's attires to read Hullot-Kentor's brilliant and definitive deconstruction of Jameson in Things Beyond Resemblance.
Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine Although each section was written independently and can stand on its own, an exhilarating effect is produced by situating them together-much in the same way that an individual painting is transformed when thoughtfully incorporated into an exhibit.
Thomas Wheatland, Assumption College Things Beyond Resemblance is a book Adorno scholars will appreciate... [and] should prove to be a valuable resource.
Thomas Wheatland H-German