The Adorno Reader

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.