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Adorno Reframed : Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

By Adorno , Geoff , Theodor W.; Boucher

Book information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2012
ISBN
1848859473, 9781848859470, 9780857724502, 0857724509, 9780857736956, 0857736957
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1407794 bytes)
Series
Contemporary Thinkers Reframed
Pages
215\177
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1903-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation. Mode-- 1903-1969. Modernism (Aesthetics) Music.1903-1969. ART -- General. AdornoAdornoTheodor W.

Description

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book challenges 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, but also an important re-evaluation of this founder of the Frankfurt School. Using a wealth of concrete illustrations from popular culture, Geoffrey Boucher recasts Adorno as a revolutionary whose subversive irony and profoundly historical aesthetics defended the integrity of the individual against social totality.

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