Browse: Theodor W. Adorno (author)

An astonishing book, comparable only to the later Wagner tracts by Nietzsche ... essential reading for anyone seriously involved with the composer, and now we can read it thanks to a superior... — New York Review of Books More…

A surprisingly accessible entry point into understanding Adorno the aesthete. Through a well-crafted and detailed introduction, Hullot-Kentor allows us to glimpse Adorno at the time of this writing-both... — Popmatters More…

A surprisingly accessible entry point into understanding Adorno the aesthete. Through a well-crafted and detailed introduction, Hullot-Kentor allows us to glimpse Adorno at the time of this writing-both... — Popmatters More…

[Adorno's] interest in Schoenberg and Benjamin was combined in his best known and most influential book...which set out to do for contemporary music what Benjamin had done for seventeenth-century... — New York Review of Books More…

Wieland Hoban's fine translation marks the first time these two collections have been published as Adorno and Tiedemann intended. . . . His essay on Weber's Der Freischutz sent me racing back... — Opera News More…

This is an extraordinary book ... one of Adorno's most impressive, fecund and elegant works ... It will appeal to anyone who wishes to encounter one of the century's most challenging and provocative... — Times Higher Education More…