Adorno

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ADORNO
MARTIN JAY
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"An admirable introduction to the thought of an inordinately complex writer. It presents that thought in lucid outline, while avoiding the sort of facile simplification that Adorno himself would have detested."
— H. Stuart Hughes
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a leading figure in the Frankfurt School and one of this century's most demanding intellectuals. His work, always informed by his variant of Critical Theory that he called Negative Dialectics, is notoriously difficult to understand but has had an enormous impact on philosophy, sociology, musicology, literary criticism, psychology, and the study of culture.
In an introductory section, Martin Joy gives a brief, lucid account of Adorno's notion of force-field, and of Adorno's extension of Walter Benjamin's concept of constellation. He j.stinouishes'five impulses in Adorno's thinking: his Marxism, his oeji le' n' derni<im, his mandorin cultural conservatism, his anticipatir... Tovább

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ADORNO
MARTIN JAY
$5.95
i i , '1/
"An admirable introduction to the thought of an inordinately complex writer. It presents that thought in lucid outline, while avoiding the sort of facile simplification that Adorno himself would have detested."
— H. Stuart Hughes
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a leading figure in the Frankfurt School and one of this century's most demanding intellectuals. His work, always informed by his variant of Critical Theory that he called Negative Dialectics, is notoriously difficult to understand but has had an enormous impact on philosophy, sociology, musicology, literary criticism, psychology, and the study of culture.
In an introductory section, Martin Joy gives a brief, lucid account of Adorno's notion of force-field, and of Adorno's extension of Walter Benjamin's concept of constellation. He j.stinouishes'five impulses in Adorno's thinking: his Marxism, his oeji le' n' derni<im, his mandorin cultural conservatism, his anticipatir iv.'o.istruc^ fmism, and the
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Professor Jay devotes the central sections of hi: bocl^ to the major aspects of Adorno's thought— his philosophy, his social theory, and his view of modern culture and aesthetic theory. He has succeeded brilliantly in the task of presenting Adorno's theories in understandable form while remaining true to their unresolved tensions.
"Martin Jay's Adorno mokes this powerful thinker intelligible and even sympathetic, while still respecting his essential complexity and asperity."
— Paul Robinson
Martin Jay is Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Dialectical Imagination, his classic account of the Frankfurt School, and Marxism and Totality, his history of western Marxism from Lukács to Habermas.
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