{"title":"Books by Theodor Adorno","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780520231597","title":"Essays on Music","description":"Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which, together with his nuanced intertextual readings of musical works, gives him broad claim as a continuing force in the study of music. This long-awaited collection of twenty-seven essays represents the full range of Adorno's music writing. Nearly half of the essays appear in English for the first time; all of the essays are fully annotated; and, the previously translated essays have been corrected and missing text restored, making this volume the definitive resource on Adorno's musical thought.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290606612853,"sku":"9780520231597","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520231597_5f5b1d40-0b5c-481f-8208-06e727cc4de0.jpg?v=1786014110"},{"product_id":"9781788738538","title":"Minima Moralia","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.\" —Susan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305580867957,"sku":"9781788738538","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788738538_ec88cd02-f7be-4421-97cb-3e6811db2850.jpg?v=1786027049"},{"product_id":"9781788738583","title":"Aesthetics and Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an afterword by Fredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In \u003ci\u003eAesthetics and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305836818805,"sku":"9781788738583","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788738583_37b2d29e-f91c-4561-9fee-7102d7298058.jpg?v=1786027054"},{"product_id":"9780415289917","title":"The Jargon of Authenticity","description":"Adorno's frank and open challenge to directness, and the avoidance of language that 'gives itself over either to the market, to balderdash, or to the predominating vulgarity', is as timely today as it ever has been.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311749837173,"sku":"9780415289917","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780415289917_8bc16ab1-9698-44a2-abd1-707e846bb868.jpg?v=1786013704"},{"product_id":"9780415271004","title":"The Stars Down to Earth","description":"In this remarkable work written 50 years ago, Adorno showcases the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311749869941,"sku":"9780415271004","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780415271004_d1c4f104-56db-4737-b790-1562c80cf2c5.jpg?v=1786013660"},{"product_id":"9781784786793","title":"Dialectic of Enlightenment","description":"Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. \u003ci\u003eDialectic of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most celebrated works of modern social philosophy that continues to impress in its wide-ranging ambition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting just after the Second World War and reflecting on the bureaucracy and myths of National Socialism and the inanity of the dawn of consumerism, Adorno and Horkheimer  addressed themselves to a question which went to the very heart of the modern age: 'why mankind, instead of entering into a truly human condition, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism'. Modernity, far from redeeming the promises and hopes of the Enlightenment, had resulted in a stultification of mankind and administered society, characterised by simulation and candy-floss entertainment.\u003cbr\u003eTracing humanity’s modern fall to the very rationality that was to be its liberation, the authors exposed the domination and violence that underpin the Enlightenment project.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312841535861,"sku":"9781784786793","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784786793_11100189-742b-4ee4-8c1b-5dead73a8eb7.jpg?v=1786026070"},{"product_id":"kierkegaard","title":"Kierkegaard","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481552626037,"sku":"9780816611874","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780816611874.jpg?v=1786089822"},{"product_id":"the-authoritarian-personality","title":"The Authoritarian Personality","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis hugely influential study on the psychology of authoritarianism was written in answer to Hitler’s Germany—and now rings more relevant than ever as fascism and anti-Semitism sweep across America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? \u003ci\u003eThe Authoritarian Personality\u003c\/i\u003e is not only one of the most significant works of social psychology ever written, it also marks a milestone in the development of Adorno’s thought, showing him grappling with the problem of fascism and the reasons for Europe’s turn to reaction. Over half a century later, and with the rise of right-wing populism and the reemergence of the far-right in recent years, this hugely influential study remains as insightful and relevant as ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition includes an introduction by Frankfurt School scholar Peter E. Gordon and contains the first-ever publication of Adorno’s subsequent critical notes on the project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Adorno and his colleagues could easily have been describing Alex Jones’s paranoid InfoWars rants or the racist views expressed by many Trump supporters.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487828353397,"sku":"9781788731645","price":58.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788731645.jpg?v=1786355051"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-theodor-adorno.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}