Adorno, Theodor W. 1903-1969

The Authoritarian personality ( Book )
39 editions published between 1950 and 1993 in English and German and held by 1,974 libraries worldwide

Dialectic of enlightenment by Max Horkheimer ( Book )
229 editions published between 1944 and 2010 in 15 languages and held by 1,546 libraries worldwide
[This book] is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947.... The work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself out of the struggle against natural forces, as represented in myths, are connected in a wide arch to the most threatening experiences of the present. -http://www.booksinprint.com.

Negative dialectics by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
147 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in 8 languages and held by 1,396 libraries worldwide
Ce texte est l'oeuvre maîtresse de Theodor W. Adorno et l'un des grands textes philosophiques contemporains. L'idée d'Adorno est comparable à celle de la bouteille jetée à la mer : transmettre une vérité au monde sans la lui livrer, sans s'y donner complètement, sans se laisser prendre par le processus historique de récupération et d'assimilation.

Aesthetic theory by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
156 editions published between 1970 and 2010 in 16 languages and held by 1,362 libraries worldwide
The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when "it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying." In the course of his discussion, Adorno revisits such concepts as the sublime, the ugly, and the beautiful, demonstrating that concepts such as these are reservoirs of human experience. These experiences ultimately underlie aesthetics, for in Adorno's formulation "art is the sedimented history of human misery."

Philosophy of modern music by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
121 editions published between 1949 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,248 libraries worldwide
"In 1947 Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even Schoenberg reviled it." "Despite the controversy, Philosophy of New Music became highly regarded and widely read among musicians, scholars, and social philosophers. Marking a major turning point in his musicological philosophy, Adorno located a critique of musical reproduction as internal to composition itself, rather than as a matter of the reproduction of musical performance. Consisting of two distinct essays, "Schoenberg and Progress" and "Stravinsky and Reaction," this work poses the musical extremes in which Adorno perceived the struggle for the cultural future of Europe, between human emancipation and barbarism, between the compositional techniques and achievements of Schoenberg and Stravinsky." "In this completely new translation - presented along with an extensive introduction by distinguished translator Robert Hullot-Kentor - Philosophy of New Music emerges as a key to the whole of Adorno's illustrious and influential oeuvre."--Jacket.

Noten zur Literatur by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
189 editions published between 1958 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 1,188 libraries worldwide
Par une des principales figures de l'Ecole de Francfort. Une série d'articles, études et conférences, écrits entre 1943 et 1967, dans lesquels le penseur aborde le domaine littéraire comme philosophie et connaissance de la société. Parmi les oeuvres abordées citons celles de Balzac, Holderlin, Valéry, Proust, Beckett, Goethe, W. Benjamin. Autres sujets traités: "L'essai comme forme"; "L'art est-il gai?; L'engagement" (Sartre, Brecht, Kafka); "Le réalisme critique" (Lukàcs). Premier public concerné: les sociologues de la littérature et les littéraires. [SDM].

Prisms by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
63 editions published between 1955 and 1997 in 5 languages and held by 1,160 libraries worldwide
"Essays on Veblen, Huxley, Benjamin, Bach, Proust, Schoenberg, Spengler, jazz, Kafka"--Jacket subtitle.

Minima moralia : reflections from damaged life by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
199 editions published between 1951 and 2010 in 20 languages and held by 1,145 libraries worldwide

Hegel three studies by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
56 editions published between 1957 and 2003 in 6 languages and held by 1,140 libraries worldwide

Introduction to the sociology of music by Theodor W Adorno ( Book )
81 editions published between 1962 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 994 libraries worldwide