Theodor W. Adorno: Negative Dialectics (1966-) [DE, EN, PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · dialectic, epistemology, Frankfurt school, identity, metaphysics, negative dialectics, ontology, phenomenology, philosophy, philosophy of history, sociology
“Theodor Adorno was one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Negative Dialectics is his major and culminating work. In it he attempts to free critical thought from the blinding orthodoxies of late capitalism, and earlier ages too. The book is essential reading for students of Adorno. It is also a vital weapon for making sense of modern times.”
German edition
Publisher Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1966
414 pages
English edition
Translation by E.B.Ashton
First published by Seabury Press, New York, 1973
Publisher Taylor & Francis, 2004
ISBN 0415052211, 9780415052214
416 pages
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English edition
Translation by Dennis Redmond
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translator
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more information (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Negative Dialektik (German, 1966, 8 MB, updated on 2016-12-23)
Negative Dialectics (English, trans. Ashton, 1973/2004, updated on 2013-6-11)
Negative Dialectics (English, trans. Redmond, updated on 2013-6-11)
Negative Dialectics (English, updated translation by Redmond with commentary, 2001, TXT)
Dialética negativa (Portuguese, trans. Marco Antonio Casanova, 2009, 12 MB, added on 2013-8-10)
Theodor W. Adorno: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, creative industries, critical media studies, critical theory, cultural production, culture industry, Frankfurt school, mass media, popular culture
“The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno’s thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today’s world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno’s work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.”
Editor J. M. Bernstein
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415253802, 9780415253802
210 pages
Key terms: fascist, mass music, virme, culture industry, mass media, Dialectic of Enlightenment, mass culture, ego ideal, Adorno, acmally, critical theory, jazz, reified, psychoanalysis, astrology, Simone Weil, Freud, Erich Fromm, Gillian Rose
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