Adorno psychology

Theodor Adorno
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Lambert Zuidervaart
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  • Bowie, Andrew. Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Polity,

    A clear and illuminating discussion of key ideas in Adorno’s thought and their relevance for contemporary philosophy, especially with reference to recent Hegel scholarship and neo-pragmatism.

  • Cook, Deborah, ed.

    Theodor adorno quotes Theodor W. Adorno (–) was one of the most important philosophers, cultural, and music critics in Germany after World War II. Although less well known among anglophone philosophers than many of his contemporaries, such as Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adorno had even greater influence on scholars and intellectuals in postwar Germany.

    Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen,

    Introductory essays by an international group of Adorno scholars on his intellectual legacy and on discrete aspects of his philosophy: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, social philosophy, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of history.

  • Jarvis, Simon.

    Adorno: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge,

    A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to Adorno’s thought, with an emphasis on his critical appropriations of classical German philosophy and sociology and with a view to Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida.

  • Jay, Martin. Adorno.

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,

    A succinct and lucid introduction to the “force-field” of Adorno’s thought, as energized by competing impulses from “Western Marxism, aesthetic modernism, mandarin cultural despair, and Jewish self-identification, as well as the more anticipatory pull of deconstructionism” (p.

    Theodore adorno biography wikipedia Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (born Sept. 11, , Frankfurt am Main, Ger.—died Aug. 6, , Visp, Switz.) was a German philosopher who also wrote on sociology, psychology, and musicology. Adorno obtained a degree in philosophy from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in

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  • O’Connor, Brian. Adorno. London: Routledge,

    An astute and readable introduction to Adorno’s philosophical ideas and concerns, centered on his notion of experience and conversant with his readings of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Lukács, and Benjamin.

  • Rose, Gillian. The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W.

    Adorno.

    Theodore adorno biography Theodor W. Adorno (alias: Theodor Adorno-Wiesengrund) was born as Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund in Frankfurt on 11 September , the only child of Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana (–) and Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund (–).

    London: Macmillan,

    The first English-language introduction to Adorno’s thought, with an emphasis on his developing a Marxist critique of culture rooted in Georg Lukács’s concept of reification.

  • Schweppenhäuser, Gerhard. Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,

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    A thematic introduction to central Adornian concepts by a leading German Adorno scholar, with an emphasis on Minima Moralia, Dialectic of Enlightenment, and Negative Dialectics.

  • Zuidervaart, Lambert.

    “Theodor W. Adorno.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. Stanford, CA: Stanford University,

    A succinct and comprehensive survey of Adorno’s thought, with a view to its contemporary philosophical significance.