Theodor W. Adorno : one last genius /

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This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create "critical theory." An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno's day--and its ongoing importance...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Claussen, Detlev (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969.
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969
1900-1999
Philosophers > Germany > Biography.
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophes > Allemagne > Biographies.
Philosophie > 20e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.
Philosophers
Philosophy, Modern
Germany
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Instead of an overture : no heirs
  • The house in Schöne Aussicht : a Frankfurt childhood around 1910
  • From Teddie Wiesengrund to Dr. Wiesengrund-Adorno
  • Adorno as "non-identical" man
  • Transitions
  • Bertolt Brecht : "to those who come after us"
  • Theodor W. Adorno : "out of the firing-line"
  • Hanns Eisler, the non-identical brother
  • Fritz Lang, the American friend
  • Frankfurt transfer
  • Adorno as "identical" man
  • The palimpsest of life.

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