The Adorno Reader [Paperback]

This superb volume brings together for the first time the essential readings selections from Adorno's multidisciplinary work. It will be valuable to readers at various levels as it makes available Adorno material which previously was either difficult to access or was presented in a form which was intimidating.Acknowledgements.

A Note on Selections.

Introduction.

Part I: The Task of Philosophy: .

1. The Actuality of Philosophy.

2. Why Philosophy?.

3. Negative Dialectics and The Possibility of Philosophy.

4. The Melancholy Science.

5. Meditations on Metaphysics: After Auschwitz.

Part II: The Concepts of Philosophy: .

6. The Essay as Form.

7. Metacritique of Epistemology.

8. Subject and Object.

Part III: Sociology: .

9. The Concept of Enlightenment.

10. Sociology and Empirical Research.

Part IV: Art, Culture and Society:.

11. Cultural Criticism and Society.

12. Lyric Poetry and Society.

13. Culture Industry Reconsidered.

14. The Autonomy of Art.

Part V: Criticism: .

15. The Perennial Fashion - Jazz.

16. Arnold Schoenberg, 1874-1951.

17. Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis.

18. Trying to Understand Endgame.

Select Bibliography.

Index.

Philosopher, social theorist, musicologist and critic, Adorno is now accepted as one of our century's most brilliant radical thinkers. The great virtue of Brian O'Connor's lucidly presented selectionl*