A Companion to Adorno (eBook)

Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer, Max Pensky (Herausgeber)

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2020
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781119146933 (ISBN)

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A definitive contribution to scholarship on Adorno, bringing together the foremost experts in the field

As one of the leading continental philosophers of the last century, and one of the pioneering members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor W. Adorno is the author of numerous influential-and at times quite radical-works on diverse topics in aesthetics, social theory, moral philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy, all of which concern the contradictions of modern society and its relation to human suffering and the human condition. Having authored substantial contributions to critical theory which contain searching critiques of the 'culture industry' and the 'identity thinking' of modern Western society, Adorno helped establish an interdisciplinary but philosophically rigorous study of culture and provided some of the most startling and revolutionary critiques of Western society to date. 

The Blackwell Companion to Adorno is the largest collection of essays by Adorno specialists ever gathered in a single volume. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, this important contribution to the field explores Adorno's lasting impact on many sub-fields of philosophy. Seven sections, encompassing a diverse range of topics and perspectives, explore Adorno's intellectual foundations, his critiques of culture, his views on ethics and politics, and his analyses of history and domination.

• Provides new research and fresh perspectives on Adorno's views and writings
• Offers an authoritative, single-volume resource for Adorno scholarship
• Addresses renewed interest in Adorno's significance to contemporary questions in philosophy
• Presents over 40 essays written by international-recognized experts in the field

A singular advancement in Adorno scholarship, the Companion to Adorno is an indispensable resource for Adorno specialists and anyone working in modern European philosophy, contemporary cultural criticism, social theory, German history, and aesthetics.

Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University.

Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Liberal Arts of Temple University. He has held professorships at the University of Oslo and the University of Essex.

Max Pensky is Professor of Philosophy and co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors ix

Editors' Introduction xv

About the Editors xix

Part I Intellectual Foundations 1

1 Adorno: A Biographical Sketch 3
Peter E. Gordon

2 Adorno's Inaugural Lecture: The Actuality of Philosophy in the Age of Mass Production 21
Roger Foster

3 Reading Kierkegaard 35
Marcia Morgan

4 Guilt and Mourning: Adorno's Debt to and Critique of Benjamin 51
Alexander Stern

5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School 67
Sherry D. Lee

Part II Cultural Analysis 85

6 The Culture Industry 87
Fred Rush

7 Adorno and Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism 103
Fabian Freyenhagen

8 Adorno and Jazz 123
Andrew Bowie

9 Adorno's Democratic Modernism in America: Leaders and Educators as Political Artists 139
Shannon Mariotti

10 Inhuman Methods for an Inhumane World: Adorno's Empirical Social Research, 1938-1950 153
Charles Clavey

Part III History and Domination 173

11 Adorno and Blumenberg: Nonconceptuality and the Bilderverbot 175
Martin Jay

12 Philosophy of History 193
Iain Macdonald

13 The Anthropology in Dialectic of Enlightenment 207
Pierre-François Noppen

14 Adorno's Reception of Weber and Lukács 221
Michael J. Thompson

15 Adorno's Aesthetic Model of Social Critique 237
Andrew Huddleston

16 The Critique of the Enlightenment 251
Martin Shuster

Part IV Social Theory and Empirical Inquiry 271

17 "Nothing is True Except the Exaggerations:" The Legacy of the Authoritarian Personality 273
David Jenemann

18 Exposing Antagonisms: Adorno on the Possibilities of Sociology 287
Matthias Benzer and Juljan Krause

19 Adorno and Marx 303
Peter Osborne

20 Adorno's Three Contributions to a Theory of Mass Psychology and Why They Matter 321
Eli Zaretsky

21 Adorno and Postwar German Society 335
Jakob Norberg

Part V Aesthetics 349

22 Aesthetic Autonomy 351
Owen Hulatt

23 Adorno and Literary Criticism 365
Henry W. Pickford

24 Adorno as a Modernist Writer 383
Richard Eldridge

25 Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 397
Eva Geulen

26 Aesthetic Theory as Social Theory 413
Peter Uwe Hohendahl

27 Adorno, Music, and the Ineffable 427
Michael Gallope

28 Adorno and Opera 443
Richard Leppert

Part VI Negative Dialectics 457

29 What is Negative Dialectics?: Adorno's Reevaluation of Hegel 459
Terry Pinkard

30 Adorno's Critique of Heidegger 473
Espen Hammer

31 Concept and Object: Adorno's Critique of Kant 487
J. M. Bernstein

32 Critique and Disappointment: Negative Dialectics as Late Philosophy 503
Max Pensky

33 Negative Dialectics and Philosophical Truth 519
Brian O'Connor

34 Adorno and Scholem: The Heretical Redemption of Metaphysics 531
Asaf Angermann

35 Adorno's Concept of Metaphysical Experience 549
Peter E. Gordon

Part VII Ethics and Politics 565

36 After Auschwitz 567
Christian Skirke

37 Forever Resistant? Adorno and Radical Transformation of Society 583
Maeve Cooke

38 Adorno's Materialist Ethic of Love 601
Kathy J. Kiloh

39 Adorno's Metaphysics of Moral Solidarity in the Moment of its Fall 615
James Gordon Finlayson

Index 631

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Notes on Contributors

Asaf Angermann is Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar in Humanities, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Beschädigte Ironie: Kierkegaard, Adorno und die negative Dialektik kritischer Subjektivität (de Gruyter, 2013), the editor of Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem, “Der liebe Gott wohnt im Detail”: Briefwechsel 1939–1969 (Suhrkamp, 2015), and the Hebrew translator and editor of Theodor W. Adorno: Education to Autonomous Thinking (HaKibbutz HaMeuchad, 2017).

Matthias Benzer is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, England, where he teaches social and sociological theory. Among his publications on Adorno’s sociology is The Sociology of Theodor Adorno (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Matthias is currently finishing a monograph (with Kate Reed) on the socio‐theoretical analysis of “social life.”

J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His research has focused on Critical Theory, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of law. Among his books are: Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (2006); and, most recently, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (2015). He is completing a study entitled Notes Toward a Minor Utopia of Everyday Life: Human Rights and the Construction of Human Dignity.

Andrew Bowie is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published very widely on modern philosophy, music, and literature, and is a jazz saxophonist. His books are: Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche; Schelling and Modern European Philosophy; F.W.J. von Schelling: “On the History of Modern Philosophy”; From Romanticism to Critical Theory. The Philosophy of German Literary Theory; Manfred Frank: “The Subject and the Text”; F.D.E. Schleiermacher, “Hermeneutics and Criticism” and Other Writings; Introduction to German Philosophy from Kant to Habermas; Music, Philosophy, and Modernity; and Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language; German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction; and Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy.

Charles Clavey is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University.

Maeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is the author of many articles in the area of social and political philosophy. Her books include Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas’s Pragmatics (MIT Press, 1994) and Re‐Presenting the Good Society (MIT Press, 2006). She is on the editorial board of a number of scholarly journals and has held visiting appointments at universities in the United States and Europe.

Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is the author, most recently, of Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Werner Herzog – Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is the Series Editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature. He has held visiting positions in Bremen, Essex, Stanford, Freiburg, and Sydney. He has published widely in philosophy of literature, aesthetics, German philosophy, and Romanticism.

James Gordon Finlayson works at the University of Sussex. He teaches philosophy, Critical Theory, and social and political thought and directs the Centre for Social and Political Thought. He writes articles and books on social and political thought. He is the author of The Habermas Rawls Debate (Columbia University Press, 2019), and is working on a book on transcendental homelessness in Adorno’s life and work.

Roger Foster is the author of Adorno: The Recovery of Experience (SUNY, 2007) and Adorno and Philosophical Modernism: The Inside of Things (Lexington, 2016), as well as numerous papers and book reviews on the tradition of Critical Social Theory. He teaches philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York.

Fabian Freyenhagen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, UK. His publications include Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and articles and book chapters on Critical Theory. Among his future projects is a historically informed ethics after Auschwitz that builds on Adorno’s work.

Michael Gallope is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota where he is a McKnight Presidential Fellow. He is the author of Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable (University of Chicago Press, 2017), as well as over a dozen articles and essays on music and philosophy. As a musician, he works in a variety of genres from avant‐garde composition to rock and West African electronica.

Eva Geulen is Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research and teaches at Humboldt University in Berlin. She studied German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg and The Johns Hopkins University. She has held teaching positions at Stanford University, the University of Rochester, and New York University and was Professor of German Literature at the University of Bonn and at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on literature and philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present, pedagogical discourses around 1800 and 1900 as well as Goethe’s morphology and its reception in the twentieth century. Her publications include: Aus dem Leben der Form. Goethes Morphologie und die Nager (August Verlag 2016); The End of Art. Readings of a Rumor after Hegel (Stanford University Press, 2006); Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung (Junius Verlag, 2005, 3rd edition 2016); Worthörig wider Willen. Darstellungsproblematik und Sprachreflexion in der Prosa Adalbert Stifters (1992); and essays on Nietzsche, Benjamin, Raabe, Thomas Mann, and others. Since 2004, she has been co‐editor of the Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie.

Andrew Huddleston is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. Prior to coming to Birkbeck, he was a Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. He specializes in German philosophy, as well as in aesthetics, ethics, and social philosophy. He has published a number of articles on these topics. His book Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture (2019) was published with Oxford University Press.

Owen Hulatt is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. He is the author of Adorno’s Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth (Columbia University Press, 2016). His current research interests include Spinoza’s metaphysics, Louis Althusser’s late work, and aesthetics. He is currently writing a monograph on aleatory materialism.

David Jenemann is Professor of English and Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont where he serves as the co‐director of the UVM Humanities Center. He is the author of Adorno in America (2007) and The Baseball Glove: History, Material, Meaning, and Value as well as a number of essays on Critical Theory and cultural history. He is currently writing a biography of Adorno.

Kathy J. Kiloh is Assistant Professor of philosophy at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada.

Juljan Krause is a researcher in social philosophy, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the editor of the philosophy journal Evental Aesthetics. Juljan is currently working on a monograph that explores the social and political dimensions of building the quantum internet.

Sherry D. Lee is Associate Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. A specialist in music and modernist cultures, nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century opera, and philosophical aesthetics, her work appears in JAMS, Cambridge Opera Journal, Music and Letters, 19th‐Century Music, the Germanic Review, and several collected volumes, the more recent including the Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies (Oxford University Press, 2015), Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear (Routledge, 2017), and Korngold and His World (forthcoming 2019). Her monograph Adorno at the Opera is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and with Daniel Grimley she is preparing The Cambridge Companion to Music and Modernism.

Richard Leppert is Regents Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His research is concentrated on Western European and American cultural history from the seventeenth century to the present. His most recent book is Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature (Opera – Orchestra – Phonograph – Film) (University of California Press, 2015). His current research focuses on the history of phonography and film music.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: 20th Century Philosophy • Actuality • adornos • adornos debt • adornos democratic modernism • adornos inaugural • Age • America • Anthropology • Art & Applied Arts • Art History & Criticism • critique • Dialectic • Foster • inaugural • inhumane • inhuman methods • kierkegaardmarcia • Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • Mass • Philosophie • Philosophie des 20. Jhd. • Philosophy • Political Sociology • Politische Soziologie • productionroger • Sociology • Soziologie • Stern
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