Theodor W. Adorno - Philosophical Works (27 books)

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THEODOR W. ADORNO (1903-1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist famous for his work in critical theory. A leading member of the "Frankfurt School" of social research, his work was associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the work of Freud, Marx and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. He is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's foremost thinkers on aesthetics and philosophy, as well as one of its preeminent essayists. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the "culture industry", his writings -- such as DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT (1947) and NEGATIVE DIALECTICS (1966) -- strongly influenced the European New Left.

Amidst the vogue enjoyed by existentialism and positivism in early 20th-century Europe, Adorno advanced a dialectical conception of natural history that critiqued the twin temptations of ontology and empiricism through studies of Kierkegaard and Husserl. As a classically trained pianist whose sympathies with the twelve-tone technique of Arnold Schoenberg resulted in his studying composition with Alban Berg of the Second Viennese School, Adorno's commitment to avant-garde music formed the backdrop of his subsequent writings and led to his collaboration with Thomas Mann on the latter's novel "Doctor Faustus", while the two men lived in California as exiles during the Second World War. Working for the newly relocated Institute for Social Research, Adorno collaborated on influential studies of authoritarianism, anti-semitism and propaganda that would later serve as models for sociological studies the Institute carried out in post-war Germany.

Upon his return to Frankfurt, Adorno was involved with the reconstitution of German intellectual life through debates with Karl Popper on the limitations of positivist science, critiques of Heidegger's language of authenticity, writings on German responsibility for the Holocaust, and continued interventions into matters of public policy. As a writer of polemics in the tradition of Nietzsche and Karl Kraus, Adorno delivered scathing critiques of contemporary Western culture. Adorno's posthumously published AESTHETIC THEORY (1970), which he planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art which attempts to revoke the "fatal separation" of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.


The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:

* AESTHETIC THEORY (Continuum, 2002). Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann; newly translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor.

* AGAINST EPISTEMOLOGY: A Metacritique (Polity, 2013). Translated by Willis Domingo.

* THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY [with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sanford] (Harper & Bros., 1950).

* CORRESPONDENCE 1925-1935 [with Alban Berg] (Polity, 2005). Edited by Henri Lonitz; translated by Wieland Hoban.

* CORRESPONDENCE 1943-1955 [with Thomas Mann] (Polity, 2006). Edited by Christoph Gödde and Thomas Sprecher; translated by Nicholas Walker.

* CRITICAL MODELS: Interventions and Catchwords (Columbia UP, 2005). Translated by Henry W. Pickford. -- ePUB

* THE CULTURE INDUSTRY: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (Routledge, 1991). Edited and with an introduction by J. M. Bernstein. -- PDF + ePUB

* CURRENT OF MUSIC: Elements of a Radio Theory (Polity, 2009). Edited with an Introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor.

* DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT [with Max Horkheimer] (Stanford UP, 2002). Edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr; translated by Edmund ]ephcott.

* DREAM NOTES (Polity, 2007). Edited by Christoph Gödde and Henri Lonitz; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

* HEGEL: Three Studies (MIT, 1993). Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen.

* HISTORY AND FREEDOM: Lectures 1964-1965 (Polity, 2006). Edited by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

* INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY (Stanford UP, 2000). Edited by Christoph Gödde; translated by Edmund Jephcott.

* THE JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY (Northwestern UP, 1973). Translated by Knut Tarnowski and Frederic Will.

* KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (Stanford UP, 2001). Edited by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

* LECTURES ON NEGATIVE DIALECTICS: Fragments of a Lecture Course 1965/1966 (Polity, 2008). Edited by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

* LETTERS TO HIS PARENTS, 1939-1951 (Polity, 2006). Edited by Christoph Gödde and Henri Lonitz; translated by Wieland Hoban.

* MAHLER: A Musical Physiognomy (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Translated by Edmund Jephcott.

* METAPHYSICS: Concept and Problems (Stanford UP, 2000). Edited by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Edmund Jephcott.

* NEGATIVE DIALECTICS (Routledge, 1973). Translated by E. B. Ashton.

* NOTES TO LITERATURE (Columbia UP, 1991-92). 2 vols. Translated by Sherry Weber Nicholsen.

* THE POSITIVIST DISPUTE IN GERMAN SOCIOLOGY [with Hans Albert, Ralf Dahrendorf, Jurgen Habermas, Harald Pilot, and Karl R. Popper] (Heinemann, 1976). Translated by Glyn Adey and David Frisby.

* PROBLEMS OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Stanford UP, 2000). Edited by Thomas Schroder; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

* THE STARS DOWN TO EARTH & Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture (Routledge, 1994). Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Crook.

* TOWARDS A NEW MANIFESTO [with Max Horkheimer] (Verso, 2011). Translated by Rodney Livingstone. -- ePUB


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For more authors associated with the "Frankfurt School" of social research, see the following links:

Walter Benjamin
http://kickasstorrents.ee/walter-benjamin-selected-works-10-books-t7662075.html

Erich Fromm
https://kickass.so/erich-fromm-the-art-of-loving-other-works-10-books-t9046519.html

Max Horkheimer
https://kickass.so/max-horkheimer-selected-works-3-books-t7654462.html

Herbert Marcuse
http://kickasstorrents.ee/herbert-marcuse-selected-works-16-books-t7591052.html