The Adorno Reader

This superb volume brings together for the first time the essential readings selections from Adorno's multidisciplinary work. It will be valuable to readers at various levels as it makes available Adorno material which previously was either difficult to access or was presented in a form which was intimidating.

Brian O'Connor is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Dublin. He was previously a college lecturer at Oxford University.

Acknowledgements

vii

A Note on Selections

x

Introduction

1

(20)

Part I The Task of Philosophy

21

(68)

The Actuality of Philosophy

23

(17)

Why Philosophy?

40

(14)

Negative Dialectics and the Possibility of Philosophy

54

(25)

The Melancholy Science

79

(5)

Meditations on Metaphysics: After Auschwitz

84

(5)

Part II The Concepts of Philosophy

89

(64)

The Essay as Form

91

(21)

Metacritique of Epistemology

112

(25)

Subject and Object

137

(16)

Part III Sociology

153

(40)

The Concept of Enlightenment

155

(19)

Sociology and Empirical Research

174

(19)

Part IV Art, Culture and Society

193

(72)

Cultural Criticism and Society

195

(16)

Lyric Poetry and Society

211

(19)

Culture Industry Reconsidered

230

(9)

The Autonomy of Art

239

(26)

Part V Criticism

265

(88)

The Perennial Fashion - Jazz

267

(13)

Arnold Schoenberg, 1874--1951

280

(24)

Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis

304

(15)

Trying to Understand Endgame

319

(34)

Select Bibliography

353

(8)

Name Index

361

(4)

Subject Index

365

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