Understanding Adorno Understanding Modernism Robin Truth Goodman by Robin Truth Goodman 9781501342974, 1501342975 instant download after payment.

Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being
seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had
an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional
historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics
were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of
commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can
be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the
prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and
cultural studies.
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
traces Adorno's social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear
in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided
into three parts. The first, “Adorno's Keywords,” is organized by the
aesthetic terms around which Adorno's philosophy circulates. The second
section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno's
philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism's evolution into the 21st
century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his
philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno's
Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno's thinking
underlies the terms of his social analysis.