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Adorno reframed

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Geoff BoucherGeoff Boucher
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, Geoff 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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Pagination

1 - 166

Publisher

I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.

Place of publication

London, England

ISBN-13

9781848859470

Edition

1st

Language

eng

Publication classification

A1 Books - authored - research; A Book

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