Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 1903 – 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the work of Freud, Marx and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. Adorno is one of the leading social thinkers of the twentieth century, long concerned himself with the problems of moral philosophy, or “whether the good life is a genuine possibility in the present.

Bibliography

Monographs by Adorno

• Kierkegaard: Konstruktion des Ästhetischen, 1933; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 2, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
• with Max Horkheimer, Dialektik der Aufklärung: Philosophische Fragmente, 1944/1947; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 3, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. Edmund Jephcott, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
• with Hans Eisler, Komposition für den Film, 1947. (in German)
  • Composing for the Films, New York: Continuum, 2005.
• Philosophie der neuen Musik, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1949, 144 pp; Frankfurt am Main: Europaische Verlaganstalt, 1959; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 12, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Philosophie de la nouvelle musique, trans. Hans Hildenbrand and Alex Lindenberg, Gallimard, 1962. (in French)
  • Filosofia da nova música, trans. Magda França, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1974‎, 165 pp. (in Portuguese)
  • Philosophy of New Music, trans. & ed. Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, 208 pp. [1]
• with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.
• Minima Moralia. Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben, 1951; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 4, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, trans. Edmund Jephcott, London: NLRB, 1974.
• Versuch über Wagner, 1952; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 13, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • In Search of Wagner, trans. R. Livingstone, London: NLB, 1981.
• Prismen. Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft, 1955; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 10.1, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Prisms, trans. S. Weber, MIT Press, 1981.
• Zur Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie. Studien über Husserl und die phänomenologischen Antinomien, 1956; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 5, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Against Epistemology: A Metacritique; Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies, trans. W. Domingo, MIT Press, 1982.
• Dissonanzen. Musik in der verwalteten Welt, 1956.
• Noten zur Literatur I, 1958; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 11, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Notes to Literature I, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
• Klangfiguren. Musikalische Schriften I, 1959; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 16, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Sound Figures, trans. Rodney Livingstone, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
• Mahler. Eine musikalische Physiognomie, 1960; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 13, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, MIT Press, 1993.
• Noten zur Literatur II, 1961; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 11, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Notes to Literature II, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
• Drei Studien zu Hegel, 1963; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 5, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Hegel: Three Studies, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, MIT Press, 1993.
• Eingriffe. Neun kritische Modelle, 1963; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 10.2, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, trans. H. W. Pickford, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
• Quasi una fantasia. Musikalische Schriften II, 1963; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 16, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Quasi una Fantasia, trans. Rodney Livingstone, London: Verso, 1992.
• Jargon der Eigentlichkeit. Zur deutschen Ideologie, 1964; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 6, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • The Jargon of Authenticity, trans. K. Tarnowski and F. Will, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
• Moments musicaux. Neu gedruckte Aufsätze 1928–1962, 1964; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 17, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • In Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962, trans. Wieland Hoban, New York: Seagull Books, 2009.
• Negative Dialektik, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966, 414 pp; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 6, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton, New York: Seabury Press, 1973; Taylor & Francis, 2004.
  • Negative Dialectics, trans. Redmond, 2001.
  • Dialética negativa‎, trans. Marco Antonio Casanova, 2009. (in Portuguese)
• Berg. Der Meister des kleinsten Übergangs, 1968; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 13, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link, trans. J. Brand and C. Hailey, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Stichworte. Kritische Modelle 2, 1969; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 10.2, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, trans. H. W. Pickford, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
• Ästhetische Theorie, 1970; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften 7, Suhrkamp. (in German)
  • Teoría estética, trans. Artur Morão, 1993. (in Portuguese)
  • Aesthetic Theory, trans. R. Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997; 2002.
  • Estetická teorie, trans. Dušan Prokop, 1997. (in Czech)
  • Teoría estética, trans. Jorge Navarro Pérez, 2004. (in Spanish)
  • Teoria estetica, trans. Giovanni Matteucci, 2009. (in Italian)
• Beethoven. Philosophie der Musik. Fragmente und Texte, ed Rolf Tiedemann, 1993; repr. in Nachgelassene Schriften 1:2. (in German)
  • Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music: Fragments and Texts, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. E. Jephcott Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998.
• Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory, ed. Robert Hullot-Kentor, 2006.
  • Current of Music, trans. Robert-Hullot Kentor, Polity Press, 2009.

Collected writings

• Gesammelte Schriften, eds. Rolf Tiedemann, with Gretel Adorno, Susan Buck-Morss and Klaus Schultz, 20 volumes, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970-1986. (in German)
• Nachgelassene Schriften, ed. Theodor W. Adorno Archive. (in German)
• with Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht, Lukács, Aesthetics and Politics, 1977; London: Verso, 1980, 221 pp.
• Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture, ed. Stephen Crook, Routledge, 1994, 176 pp.
• The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, ed. J. M. Bernstein, Routledge, 2001, 210 pp.

Correspondence

• Briefe an die Eltern 1939-1951, eds. Christoph Godde and Henri Lonitz. (in German)
  • Letters to His Parents 1939-1951, Polity Press, 2006.

Monographs on Adorno

• Susan Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute, New York: The Free Press, 1977; London: Harvester Press, 1978; 2002.
  • Origen de la dialéctica negativa, Mexico: Siglo XXI editores, trans. Nora Rabotnikof Maskivker, 1981. (Spanish)
• Christoph Menke, The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida, trans. Neil Solomon, MIT Press, 1999, 310 pp.
• Tia DeNora, After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 176 pp.
• David Jenemann, Adorno in America, 2007.
• Detlev Claussen, Rodney Livingstone, Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius, 2008.
• John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler (eds.), Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism, Pluto Press, 2009, 252 pp.

See also

• Walter Benjamin

External links

• Adorno at Wikipedia