Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism

Professor Robin Truth Goodman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7031-1 (ISBN)

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Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies.

Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno’s social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, “Adorno’s Keywords,” is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno’s philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno’s philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism’s evolution into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno’s Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno’s thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis.

Robin Truth Goodman is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. She is the author or editor of ten previous books, including Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat (2017) and, as editor, Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (2016).

Series Preface
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
Robin Truth Goodman

Section 1: Adorno’s Keywords
1 Adorno and Beyond: The Modern as Critique of Modernism
Max Paddison, Durham University, UK
2 Under the Skin of Modernity: The Subcutaneous
Brigit Antonia Hofstätter, Stockholm University, Sweden
3 Mimesis Unto Death
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA

Section 2: Adorno’s Aesthetics
4 Adorno on Vinyl
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
5 Critique, Complexity, Content: Adorno and Musical Modernism since 1970
Larson Powell, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
6 Between the Culture Industry and Art: Adorno’s Approach to Film
Stefanie Baumann, University is New University of Lisbon, Portugal
7 How It Is (after Auschwitz): Adorno and Beckett
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA
8 Thinking Through and Beyond Modernism: Adorno and Contemporary Performance
Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, USA
9 Re-Reading Adorno’s Reading of Eichendorff in the Context of 1957
Christian P. Weber, Florida State University, USA
10 Adorno and the Ethics of Camp
Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Section 3: Adorno’s Constellations
11 Art and Animals in Adorno
Camilla Flodin, Uppsala University, Sweden
12 The Art of Dehumanization: Adorno’s Animals
Natalie Lozinski-Veach, University of West Georgia, USA
13 Social Labor and the Work of Art, According to Adorno
Ulrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA
14 Conspiracy Against Theory: Super-Agents, Conspirators, and the Educational Legacies of Positivism
Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
15 Aspects of Adorno’s Critical Theory of Culture
Stefan Müller-Doohm, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Trans. Daniel Steuer

Acknowledgments
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5013-7031-6 / 1501370316
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7031-1 / 9781501370311
Zustand	Neuware