Adorno's Shadow
A Lasting Legacy
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Theodor W. Adorno’s legacy as a philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and critical theorist remains as vital today as it was in his own time. This volume brings together a diverse array of essays that engage deeply with Adorno’s work, exploring its enduring power to illuminate the complexities of contemporary life. From the culture industry’s grip on digital existence to the commodification of human relationships, the contributors trace Adorno’s critiques of modernity to our present moment, demonstrating the ongoing relevance of his thought in an era of rising authoritarianism, ecological collapse, and social fragmentation.
Far from being a mere exercise in intellectual history, this collection wrestles with Adorno’s most challenging ideas — his negative dialectics, his reflections on education, and his unwavering insistence on the necessity of critique. The essays reveal how Adorno’s commitment to human emancipation, tempered by an acute awareness of the forces that obstruct it, offers not just a diagnosis of social pathologies but also a fragile hope for transformation.
For scholars, students, and anyone grappling with the urgent questions of justice, freedom, and solidarity, this book is an invitation to think with Adorno — to confront the discomforts of our time, resist facile consolations, and sustain the difficult labor of imagining a more humane world.
Far from being a mere exercise in intellectual history, this collection wrestles with Adorno’s most challenging ideas — his negative dialectics, his reflections on education, and his unwavering insistence on the necessity of critique. The essays reveal how Adorno’s commitment to human emancipation, tempered by an acute awareness of the forces that obstruct it, offers not just a diagnosis of social pathologies but also a fragile hope for transformation.
For scholars, students, and anyone grappling with the urgent questions of justice, freedom, and solidarity, this book is an invitation to think with Adorno — to confront the discomforts of our time, resist facile consolations, and sustain the difficult labor of imagining a more humane world.
Amirhosein Khandizaji received his PhD in Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Besides many books he published in the field of Critical Theory he is one of the founding editors of the Berlin Journal of Critical Theory (xenomoi Verlag, Berlin) and an expert in the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno.
Wolfgang Sohst ist ein in Berlin ansässiger Philosoph und Gründer des wissenschaftlichen xenomoi Verlages in Berlin.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 220 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Schlagworte | Adorno, Theodor W. • authoritarian character • Capitalism • Critical theory • Frankfurt School • Kritische Theorie |
| ISBN-10 | 3-942106-80-9 / 3942106809 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-942106-80-1 / 9783942106801 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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