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The German philosopher and cultural critic Theodor W. Adorno was one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and between 1938 and 1953 he lived in exile in the United States. In the first in-depth account of this period of Adorno's life, David Jenemann examines Adorno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jenemann, David, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969.
Popular culture.
Intellectual life.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Philosophers.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Popular culture > United States.
United States.
Germany.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : dreams in America
  • The monster under the stone : Adorno and the rise of administrative research
  • Adorno in sponsor-land : authority on the radio
  • Below the surface : Frankfurt goes to Hollywood
  • "If there should be a posterity" : high modernism, horoscopes, and heroic salesmen
  • Coda : Theodor Adorno, American.

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