Adorno Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

ISBN-13: 9781848859470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Geoffrey Boucher

Opis

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book challenges this popular image and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed authentic art could save the world.Adorno Reframed is not only a comprehensive introduction to the reader coming to Adorno for the first time, but also an important re-evaluation of this founder of the Frankfurt School. Using a wealth of concrete illustrations from popular culture, Geoffrey Boucher recasts Adorno as a revolutionary whose subversive irony and profoundly historical aesthetics defended the integrity of the individual against social totality.

Spis treści

1: Social Philosophy and the Culture Industries 2. Aesthetic Theory 3. Music and Literature 4. Art and Cinema 5. Reframing Adorno: Feminism and Postmodernism