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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807004103321

Autore

Claussen Detlev

Titolo

Theodor W. Adorno : one last genius / / Detlev Claussen ; translated by Rodney Livingstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-674-02959-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Disciplina

193

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Soggetti

Philosophers - Germany

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the German.

Originally published as Theodor W. Adorno: Ein letztes Genie, (c) S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-418) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Instead of an overture : no heirs -- The house in Schone Aussicht : a Frankfurt childhood around 1910 -- From Teddie Wiesengrund to Dr. Wiesengrund-Adorno -- Adorno as "non-identical" man -- Transitions -- Bertolt Brecht : "to those who come after us" -- Theodor W. Adorno : "out of the firing-line" -- Hanns Eisler, the non-identical brother -- Fritz Lang, the American friend -- Frankfurt transfer -- Adorno as "identical" man -- The palimpsest of life.

Sommario/riassunto

This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create "critical theory." An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno's day-and its ongoing importance in our own.