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Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most distinguished American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers together sixteen essays he has written about the philosopher over the past twenty years.
The opening essay, "Origin Is the Goal," pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and political situation of the United States. "Back to Adorno" examines Adorno's idea that sacrifice is the primordial form of human domination; "Second Salvage" reconstructs Adorno's unfinished study of the transformation of music in radio transmission; and "What Is Mechanical Reproduction" revisits Adorno's criticism of Walter Benjamin. Further essays cover a broad range of topics: Adorno's affinities with Wallace Stevens and Nabokov, his complex relationship with Kierkegaard and psychoanalysis, and his critical study of popular music.
Many of these essays have been revised, with new material added that emphasizes the relevance of Adorno's thought to the United States today. Things Beyond Resemblance is a timely and richly analytical collection crucial to the study of critical theory, aesthetics, continental philosophy, and Adorno.
Review:
"Adorno is among the most potent theoretical legislators of our time. Hullot-Kentor is a brilliant expositor of his ideas, vigorously defending many of their seemingly problematic implications. He writes with an elegant brio all his own, bringing wit and fire to the most difficult subjects and exploring them in provocative and imaginative ways. This scintillating collection will doubtless attract considerable attention."
—Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
"Just as Robert Hullot-Kentor's new translations of Adorno's main works are a stroke of good fortune for philosophical literature, in his Things Beyond Resemblance he presents completely new and altogether original aspects of Adorno's thought. Here, under the optic of the artist, Adorno's philosophy once again begins to breathe; indeed, the philosopher and philologist that Hullot-Kentor equally is, gives voice to Adorno's aesthetics and its own often artistic prose. This occurs most astoundingly, however, when the American author undertakes to comprehend the current political and social situation of his country in the concepts and theories of the German philosopher and thus demonstrates beyond any doubt Adorno's undiminished contemporary import."
—Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archiv, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings
"Hullot-Kentor is a brilliant expositor of [Adorno's] ideas, vigorously defending many of their seemingly problematic implications."
—Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Origin Is the Goal
Back to Adorno
Things Beyond Resemblance
The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg
Critique of the Organic: Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic
Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music
Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and "The Essay as Form"
What Is Mechanical Reproduction?
Adorno Without Quotation
Popular Music and "The Aging of the New Music"
The Impossibility of Music
Apple Criticizes Tree of Knowledge: A Review of One Sentence
Right Listening and a New Type of Human Being
Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Recovery of the Public World
Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno
Introduction to T. W. Adorno's "The Idea of Natural-History"
The Idea of Natural-History, Theodor W. Adorno
Index
The opening essay, "Origin Is the Goal," pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and political situation of the United States. "Back to Adorno" examines Adorno's idea that sacrifice is the primordial form of human domination; "Second Salvage" reconstructs Adorno's unfinished study of the transformation of music in radio transmission; and "What Is Mechanical Reproduction" revisits Adorno's criticism of Walter Benjamin. Further essays cover a broad range of topics: Adorno's affinities with Wallace Stevens and Nabokov, his complex relationship with Kierkegaard and psychoanalysis, and his critical study of popular music.
Many of these essays have been revised, with new material added that emphasizes the relevance of Adorno's thought to the United States today. Things Beyond Resemblance is a timely and richly analytical collection crucial to the study of critical theory, aesthetics, continental philosophy, and Adorno.
Review:
"Adorno is among the most potent theoretical legislators of our time. Hullot-Kentor is a brilliant expositor of his ideas, vigorously defending many of their seemingly problematic implications. He writes with an elegant brio all his own, bringing wit and fire to the most difficult subjects and exploring them in provocative and imaginative ways. This scintillating collection will doubtless attract considerable attention."
—Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
"Just as Robert Hullot-Kentor's new translations of Adorno's main works are a stroke of good fortune for philosophical literature, in his Things Beyond Resemblance he presents completely new and altogether original aspects of Adorno's thought. Here, under the optic of the artist, Adorno's philosophy once again begins to breathe; indeed, the philosopher and philologist that Hullot-Kentor equally is, gives voice to Adorno's aesthetics and its own often artistic prose. This occurs most astoundingly, however, when the American author undertakes to comprehend the current political and social situation of his country in the concepts and theories of the German philosopher and thus demonstrates beyond any doubt Adorno's undiminished contemporary import."
—Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archiv, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings
"Hullot-Kentor is a brilliant expositor of [Adorno's] ideas, vigorously defending many of their seemingly problematic implications."
—Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Origin Is the Goal
Back to Adorno
Things Beyond Resemblance
The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg
Critique of the Organic: Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic
Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music
Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and "The Essay as Form"
What Is Mechanical Reproduction?
Adorno Without Quotation
Popular Music and "The Aging of the New Music"
The Impossibility of Music
Apple Criticizes Tree of Knowledge: A Review of One Sentence
Right Listening and a New Type of Human Being
Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Recovery of the Public World
Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno
Introduction to T. W. Adorno's "The Idea of Natural-History"
The Idea of Natural-History, Theodor W. Adorno
Index