Adorno by Nigel C Gibson

Adorno by Nigel C Gibson

This volume is an edited collection of scholarly essays on the work of Theodor W. Adorno that brings together many of the world's top critics to examine his lasting impact.

"There is a kind of poetic justice in the fact that Adorno is the great survivor of the Frankfurt School, the only one whose thought retained its full actualityHowever, the same thing he said for psychoanalysis – that its truth resides in its very exaggerations – goes for his own thought: he is at his most subversive when he gets involved in a deadlock. For this reason, this critical reader, focused on these deadlocks, is not just a commentary on his thought, but literally part of it. In short, this book is simply a must!" Slavoj Zizek, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institute, Essen

"Against all odds, Adorno has emerged at the dawn of the twenty-first century as arguably the leading theoretical inspiration of our time. These stimulating essays, written by fresh as well as familiar commentators on his oeuvre, go a long way towards explaining the power of his ideas and demonstrating their abiding relevance." Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley

Nigel Gibson is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches philosophy and postcolonial studies. He is also a research associate at Harvard University and at Brown University. He is editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999) and co-editor, with George C. Bond, of Contested Terrain and Contested Categories: Africa in Focus (2001).

Andrew Rubin is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is editor of The Edward Said Reader (2000), and has written articles for a variety of national magazines and newspapers, including The Nation.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780631212492
ISBN 10	0631212493
Title	Adorno
Author	Nigel C Gibson
Series	Blackwell Critical Reader
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Year published	2002-01-21
Number of pages	464
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.