Ebook: Adorno in America

Introduction : dreams in America -- The monster under the stone : Adorno and the rise of administrative research -- Adorno in sponsor-land : authority on the radio -- Below the surface : Frankfurt goes to Hollywood -- "If there should be a posterity" : high modernism, horoscopes, and heroic salesmen -- Coda : Theodor Adorno, American.;From the time he first arrived in New York in 1938 to work for the Princeton Radio Research Project, Adorno was dedicated to understanding the technological and social influence of popular art in the United States, Shuttling between insightful readings of Adorno's theories and a rich body of archival materials-including unpublished writings and FBI files-Jenemann paints a portrait of Adorno's years in New York and Los Angeles and tells the cultural history of an America coming to grips with its rapidly evolving mass culture. Adorno in America eloquently and persuasively argues for a more complicated, more intimate relationship between Adorno and American society than has ever been previously acknowledged. What emerges is not only an image of an intellectual in exile, but ultimately a rediscovery of Adorno as a potent defender of a vital and intelligent democracy.