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Adorno: A Critical Reader

Nigel C. Gibson (Editor), Andrew Rubin (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21249-2
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January 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Adorno and the Autonomous Intellectual: Nigel Gibson and Andrew Rubin (both Columbia University).

Part I: Politics and Culture:.

1. Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner: Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University).

2. Mass Culture as Hieroglyphic Writing: Adorno, Derrida, Kracauer: Miriam Hansen (University of Chicago).

3. Theodor W. Adorno and the Dialectics of Mass Culture: Douglas Kellner (University of California, Los Angeles).

4. Adorno's Politics: Russell Berman (Stanford University).

5. "Why were the Jews Sacrificed?": The Place of Antisemitism in Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment: Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University).

6. Demythologizing the Authoritarian Personality: Reconnoitering Adorno's Retreat from Marx: Lou Turner (North Central College, Illinois).

7. The Adorno Files: Andrew Rubin (Columbia University).

Part II: Aesthetics:.

8. Adorno as Lateness Itself: Edward W. Said (Columbia University).

9. Immanent Critique, or Musical Stocktaking? Adorno and the Problem of Musical Analysis: Max Paddison (University of Durham).

10. Adorno and the New Musicology: Rose Rosengard Subotnik (Brown University).

Part III: Critical Theory and After:.

11. Rethinking an Old Saw: Dialectical Negativity, Utopia, and Negative Dialectic in Adorno's Hegelian Marxism: Nigel Gibson (Columbia University).

12. Hegel on Trial: Adorno's Critique of Philosophical Systems: Mauro Bozzetti (University of Urbino, Italy).

13. The Dialectic of Theory and Praxis: On Late Adorno: Henry W. Pickford.

14. Radical Art: Reflections after Adorno and Heidegger: Krzysztof Ziarek (University of Notre Dame).

15. Queerly Amiss: Sexuality and the Logic of Adorno's Dialectics: Jennifer Rycenga (San José State University).

16. "As though the end of the world had come and gone" or Allemal ist nicht immergleich – Critical Theory and the Task of Reading: Samuel Weber (University of California, Los Angeles).

Bibliography.

Index.

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