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Free Download Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History
by William S. Allen
English | 2025 | ASIN: B0D95FBGT1 | 265 Pages | True PDF | 3 MB

Free Download Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Martin Mittelmeier, translated by Shelley Frisch
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: 0300259301 | True EPUB | 200 pages | 11.2 MB
The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history

Free Download Iain Macdonald, "Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0804756368 | PDF | pages: 231 | 12.7 mb
Adorno and Heidegger explores the conflictual history of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger. As is well known, there has been little productive engagement between these two schools of thought, in large measure due to Adorno’s sustained and unanswered critique of Heidegger. Stemming from this critique, numerous political and philosophical barriers have kept these traditions separate, such that they have rarely been submitted to scrutiny, let alone questioned. The essays making up this collection are fresh and original attempts at coming to terms with the nuances and difficulties that these two towering figures have bequeathed to the history of European thought. The volume’s authors deal with a variety of issues ranging from epistemology to esthetics, to ethics, to intellectual history and modernity, providing the reader with detailed insight into a thorny debate in the history of recent European thought.

Free Download Martin Mittelmeier, "Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory "
English | ISBN: 0300259301 | 2024 | 200 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history

Free Download Christa Mrowka, "Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Essays on Two Modern Dialecticians"
English | ISBN: 1803740736 | 2023 | 148 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern crisis rendered art’s affirmative essence, like all positivistic fixations, obsolete. Only a new conception of dialectics, based on the reciprocity of opposites, rather than on antitheses, is capable of healing modern dichotomies. Independent of Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Critical Theory, Friel is aware that with the processual character of life this requires of the artist in particular an attitude both critical and conciliatory and a persistent readiness to change. Reality is in need of possibility, its dialectic other. Uncertainty, in Friel’s Theatre of Hope and Despair is no longer a defect of our time, but a source of creation in art as well as in life.

Free Download Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophy, Society, and Aesthetics (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) by Stefano Petrucciani
English | April 23, 2021 | ISBN: 3030719901 | True EPUB/PDF | 182 pages | 0.3/2.8 MB
This book is a complete presentation of the most important themes of Theodor W. Adorno’s critical theory, and of its relevance for the understanding of the modern society.

Free Download Joseph Weiss, "Dialectics of Music, The: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze"
English | ISBN: 1350174963 | 2021 | 196 pages | AZW3 | 832 KB
Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the unresolved contradictions of contemporary music. By following the outermost mediations between nature, history, and technology, the book reflects on how advanced music critically responds to the ongoing catastrophe of both the Middle Passage and Auschwitz. Following what the author calls the "categorical imperative" of music, Weiss investigates the significance of a wide range of musical phenomena including the territorialization of the lullaby, the improvisation and sorrow song of the blues and jazz, as well as the cosmological limits of the electroacoustic avant-garde. In the era of commodity production, racialized violence and dispossession, the author defends critical music as a singular index of political possibilities.

Free Download Estelle Ferrarese, "The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care "
English | ISBN: 1474467393 | 2020 | 160 pages | PDF | 730 KB
Estelle Ferrarese is one of the leading figures of the contemporary French reception of Critical Theory and this book offers a renewal of the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno.

Free Download Constellation et utopie : Theodor W. Adorno, le singulier et l’espérance de Daniel Payot
Français | 12 avril 2018 | ISBN: 2252041188 | True EPUB | 170 pages | 0.7 MB
La philosophie d’Adorno est une critique de la domination politique et idéologique. Elle est aussi une méditation sur les devoirs de la pensée confrontée à la Shoah et aux totalitarismes du XXe siècle.

Free Download Thijs Lijster, "Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism: Critique of Art"
English | ISBN: 946298140X | 2017 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of and reason for art in society and culture. Thijs Lijster takes us through points of agreement and disagreement between the two on such key topics as the relationship between art and historical experience, between avant-garde art and mass culture, and between the intellectual and the public. He also addresses the continuing relevance of Benjamin and Adorno to ongoing debates in contemporary aesthetics, such as the end of art, the historical meaning of art, and the role of the critic.