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1. Theodor W, Adorno II

   Edited by Espen Hammer

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

   A new title in Routledge’s Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers series, this is a two-volume collection of the very best recent scholarship on Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69). It is an essential successor to an earlier four-volume collection, Theodor Adorno (Critical Evaluations in Cultural...

   To Be Published November 13th 2015 by Routledge
2. Apparitions

   Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

   By Berthold Hoeckner

   Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and...

   To Be Published June 29th 2015 by Routledge
3. Dialectics of the Body

   Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno

   By Lisa Yun Lee

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present...

   Published August 12th 2014 by Routledge
4. Adorno

   By Brian O'Connor

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. Crucial to the development of Critical Theory, his highly original and distinctive but often difficult writings not only advance questions of fundamental philosophical significance, but...

   Published September 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature

   By Ulrich Plass

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse....

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society

   By Deborah Cook

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Adorno on Nature

   By Deborah Cook

   Decades before the environmental movement emerged in the 1960s, Adorno condemned our destructive and self-destructive relationship to the natural world, warning of the catastrophe that may result if we continue to treat nature as an object that exists exclusively for our own benefit. "Adorno on...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
8. Theodor Adorno

   Key Concepts

   By Deborah Cook

   Series: Key Concepts

   Adorno continues to have an impact on disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, musicology and literary theory. An uncompromising critic, even as Adorno contests many of the premises of the philosophical tradition, he also reinvigorates that tradition in his...

   Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge
9. Theodor Adorno

   By Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   The range of Adorno's achievement, and the depth of his insights, is breathtaking and daunting. His work on literary, artistic, and musical forms, his devastating indictment of modern industrial society, and his profound grasp of Western culture from Homer to Hollywood have made him one...

   Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge
10. Theodor Adorno

    Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

    Edited by Simon Jarvis

    Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

    Theodor Adorno was a German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist and was a leading member and eventually director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Adorno studied an extraordinary range of subjects during his lifetime – from dialectical logic and the syntax of poetry to...

    Published November 30th 2006 by Routledge