Prisms
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno;Samuel Weber ShierryWeber (9780262510257)

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno;Samuel Weber ShierryWeber

Release Date: 29 March 1983
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Category: Modern
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262510257
ISBN-10: 0262510251

Prisms, essays in cultural criticism and society, is the work of a criticand scholar who has had a marked influence on contemporary American and Germanthought. It displays the unusual combination of intellectual depth, scope, andphilosophical rigor that Adorno was able to bring to his subjects, whether he waswriting about astrology columns in Los Angeles newspapers, the special problems ofGerman academics immigrating to the United States during the Nazi years, or Hegel'sinfluence on Marx.In these essays, Adorno explores a variety of topics, ranging fromAldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kafka's The Castle to Jazz, Bach, Schoenberg, Proust, Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, museums, Spengler, and more. Hiswriting throughout is knowledgeable, witty, and at times archly opinionated, butrevealing a sensitivity to the political, cultural, economic, and aestheticconnections that lie beneath the surfaces of everyday life.Theodor W. Adorno(1903-1969) was a student of philosophy, musicology, psychology, and sociology atFrankfurt where he later became Professor of Philosophy and Sociology andCo-Director of the Frankfurt School. During the war years he lived in Oxford, in NewYork, and in Los Angeles, continuing to produce numerous books on music, literature, and culture.Prisms is included in the series, Studies in Contemporary German SocialThought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

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