Ebook: Adorno Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodore W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book draws on new translations into English to challenge this popular image and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed authentic art could save the world. Adorno Reframed is not only a comprehensive introduction to the reader coming to Adorno for the first time through detailed discussion of artworks, novels, films and music, but an important re-evaluation of thi.;Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Atonal philosophy; Chapter 1. Negative dialectics ; Chapter 2. Adorno's history of modernism; Chapter 3. Aesthetic theory; Chapter 4. Adorno today; Further reading; References; Index.