Adorno Reframed

Autor*innen

• Geoff Boucher

Parameter

• 163 Seiten
• 6 Lesestunden

• Kunst & Kultur
• Musik
• Philosophie
• Wissenschaftliche Theorien

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Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book challenges this popular image and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed authentic art could save the world. Adorno Reframed is not only a comprehensive introduction to the reader coming to Adorno for the first time, but also an important re-evaluation of this founder of the Frankfurt School. Using a wealth of concrete illustrations from popular culture, Geoffrey Boucher recasts Adorno as a revolutionary whose subversive irony and profoundly historical aesthetics defended the integrity of the individual against social totality.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Einband: Paperback