Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Editors’ Introduction xv
About the Editors xix
Part I Intellectual Foundations 1
1 Adorno: A Biographical Sketch 3Peter E. Gordon
2 Adorno’s Inaugural Lecture: The Actuality of Philosophy in the Age of Mass Production 21Roger Foster
3 Reading Kierkegaard 35Marcia Morgan
4 Guilt and Mourning: Adorno’s Debt to and Critique of Benjamin 51Alexander Stern
5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School 67Sherry D. Lee
Part II Cultural Analysis 85
6 The Culture Industry 87Fred Rush
7 Adorno and Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism 103Fabian Freyenhagen
8 Adorno and Jazz 123Andrew Bowie
9 Adorno’s Democratic Modernism in America: Leaders and Educators as Political Artists 139Shannon Mariotti
10 Inhuman Methods for an Inhumane World: Adorno’s Empirical Social Research, 1938–1950 153Charles Clavey
Part III History and Domination 173
11 Adorno and Blumenberg: Nonconceptuality and the Bilderverbot 175Martin Jay
12 Philosophy of History 193Iain Macdonald
13 The Anthropology in Dialectic of Enlightenment 207Pierre-François Noppen
14 Adorno’s Reception of Weber and Lukács 221Michael J. Thompson
15 Adorno’s Aesthetic Model of Social Critique 237Andrew Huddleston
16 The Critique of the Enlightenment 251Martin Shuster
Part IV Social Theory and Empirical Inquiry 271
17 “Nothing is True Except the Exaggerations:” The Legacy of the Authoritarian Personality 273David Jenemann
18 Exposing Antagonisms: Adorno on the Possibilities of Sociology 287Matthias Benzer and Juljan Krause
19 Adorno and Marx 303Peter Osborne
20 Adorno’s Three Contributions to a Theory of Mass Psychology and Why They Matter 321Eli Zaretsky
21 Adorno and Postwar German Society 335Jakob Norberg
Part V Aesthetics 349
22 Aesthetic Autonomy 351Owen Hulatt
23 Adorno and Literary Criticism 365Henry W. Pickford
24 Adorno as a Modernist Writer 383Richard Eldridge
25 Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory 397Eva Geulen
26 Aesthetic Theory as Social Theory 413Peter Uwe Hohendahl
27 Adorno, Music, and the Ineffable 427Michael Gallope
28 Adorno and Opera 443Richard Leppert
Part VI Negative Dialectics 457
29 What is Negative Dialectics?: Adorno’s Reevaluation of Hegel 459Terry Pinkard
30 Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger 473Espen Hammer
31 Concept and Object: Adorno’s Critique of Kant 487J. M. Bernstein
32 Critique and Disappointment: Negative Dialectics as Late Philosophy 503Max Pensky
33 Negative Dialectics and Philosophical Truth 519Brian O’Connor
34 Adorno and Scholem: The Heretical Redemption of Metaphysics 531Asaf Angermann
35 Adorno’s Concept of Metaphysical Experience 549Peter E. Gordon
Part VII Ethics and Politics 565
36 After Auschwitz 567Christian Skirke
37 Forever Resistant? Adorno and Radical Transformation of Society 583Maeve Cooke
38 Adorno’s Materialist Ethic of Love 601Kathy J. Kiloh
39 Adorno’s Metaphysics of Moral Solidarity in the Moment of its Fall 615James Gordon Finlayson
Index 631