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 | | The Adorno Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Brian O'Connor (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780631210764 ISBN-10: 0-631-21076-8 ISBN-13: 9780631210764 ISBN-13: 978-0-631-21076-4 Hardcover 2000-04-14 Wiley-Blackwell Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
Book Description This superb volume brings together for the first time essential selections from the multidisciplinary work of Theodore Adorno, sociologist & philosopher of Frankfurt school. | ||
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Sure he was a snob... It's OK to concede this. And he was an armchair academic who eschewed every opportunity for real-life praxis. He was human, fallible, prone to snap judgments on subjects he didn't understand. And YET...despite his snobbery (why wasn't he frequenting the great jazz clubs of South L.A. if he was so interested in essaying the subject?), and despite his vulnerability to any number of Sloterdijkian critiques...there are enough moments of tough, bristling intelligence to make it all so very worthwhile. BUT DON'T START HERE. Go straight to the fount; with Adorno context is EVERYTHING. Pick up Aesthetic Theory (Hullot-Kentor translation) and Minima Moralia. Appetite whetted? Try Negative Dialectics next. And then come back here and write your own review. :) | ||
Perennial mirrors Do not be put off by Adorno's so-called "critique" of jazz music. Adorno's critique, all critiques are embodied in jazz. His use of the essay-form itself shows his desire to put constraints on his art to free himself, from those boundaries he denounces, or boundaries which he feels will co-opt him. Besides, many who call him a "snob" for this are forgetting that jazz improvisation is a transgression of the idiom, which is what Adorno speaks of when he labels it a fashion. He speaks of the idiom, and the lack of possibilities on divers ONTOLOGICAL levels. No matter what he thought, he's still a super-cronopio. | ||