Theodor W. Adorno: Aesthetic Theory (1970-) [DE, EN, PT, CZ, ES, IT]

Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno’s magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.

German edition
Publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1970

English edition
Editors Gretel Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann
Newly translated, edited, and with a translator’s introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
This translation published 1997 by The Athlone Press Ltd
This edition published 2002 by Continuum
ISBN 0826467571
383 pages

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Ästhetische Theorie (German, 1970, added on 2013-6-11, PDF)
Aesthetic Theory (English, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, 1997/2002, updated on 2013-6-11)
Teoría estética (Portuguese, trans. Artur Morão, 1993, added on 2013-6-11)
Estetická teorie (Czech, trans. Dušan Prokop, 1997, added on 2013-6-11)
Teoría estética (Spanish, trans. Jorge Navarro Pérez, 2004, added on 2013-6-11)
Teoria estetica (Italian, trans. Giovanni Matteucci, 2009, added on 2013-6-11)

John Roberts: Philosophizing the Everyday: Revolutionary Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Theory (2006)

“After modernism and postmodernism, it is argued, the everyday supposedly is where a democracy of taste is brought into being – the place where art goes to recover its customary and collective pleasures, and where the shared pleasures of popular culture are indulged, from celebrity magazines to shopping malls. John Roberts argues that this understanding of the everyday downgrades its revolutionary meaning and philosophical implications. Bringing radical political theory back to the centre of the discussion, he shows how notions of cultural democratization have been oversimplified. Asserting that the everyday should not be narrowly identified with the popular, Roberts critiques the way in which the concept is now overly associated with consumption and ‘ordinariness’. Engaging with the work of key thinkers including, Lukacs, Arvatov, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Gramsci, Barthes, Vaneigem, and de Certeau, Roberts shows how the concept of the everyday continues to be central to debates on ideology, revolution and praxis. He offers a lucid account of different approaches that developed over the course of the twentieth century, making this an ideal book for anyone looking for a politicised approach to cultural theory.”

Publisher Pluto Press, 2006
ISBN 0745324118, 9780745324111
147 pages

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Christopher Prendergast (ed.): Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams (1995)

The work of Raymond Williams is of seminal importance in rethinking the idea of culture. He is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of international cultural studies. In tribute to his legacy, this edited volume is devoted to his theories of cultural materialism and is the most substantial and wide-ranging collection of essays on his work to be offered since his death in 1988. For all readers grappling with Williams’s complex legacy, this volume is not to be missed.

Contributors: Stanley Aronowitz, John Brenkman, Peter de Bolla, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Heath, John Higgins, Peter Hitchcock, Cora Kaplan, David Lloyd, Robert Miklitsch, Michael Moriarty, Morag Shiach, David Simpson, Gillian Skirrow, Kenneth Surin, Paul Thomas, Gauri Viswanathan, and Cornel West.

Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1995
ISBN 0816622809, 9780816622801
387 pages

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