"This volume illustrates what it means to do intellectual history and demonstrates why intellectual history remains important, especially in the context of... the 'political history of ideas'." - German Studies Review

"Each essay, in its own right, is accomplished, well written, and highly engaging (even when one disagrees with its claims)." - H-German

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory,...

A special issue of New German Critique
The posthumous publication of Theodor W. Adorno's works on music continues to reveal the special relationship between music and philosophy in his thinking. These important works have not, however, received as much scholarly attention as they deserve. Contributors to this issue seek to provide insight into some of the key themes raised in these works, including the sociology of musical genre, the historical transformation of music from the -heroic- or high-bourgeois era to late modernity, the meaning of both performance and listening in the era...