Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno by Stuart Walton

Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno by Stuart Walton

While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the category of Cultural Marxism. Adorno has wrongly been blamed for everything from the Beatles to postmodernism, but he has continued to be read, if read badly. Stuart Walton's introduction to Adorno attempts to explain how this idiosyncratic thinker reframed elements of the Hegelian-Marxist dialectical in the fields of philosophy, sociology, politics and aesthetics and to rectify some of the major misunderstandings about Adorno and the Frankfurt School. When Walton began studying Adorno at Oxford in 1983 he felt that Adorno was nowhere in the English-speaking world, but that he should be everywhere. Now Adorno is everywhere, but hardly anywhere sufficiently or deeply understood.

Stuart Walton has been writing about alcoholic drinks since the early 1990s. A prolific writer and commentator on wines and spirits, he is wine writer on the Sussex Argus, Bella magazine, and the website www.wine-pages.com. He is also the author of The World Encyclopedia of Wine, You Heard It Through The Grapevine; Out Of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication; and co-author of The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Wines, Beers, Spirits and Liqueurs and The Right Wine with the Right Food.

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Title	Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno
Author	Stuart Walton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Zero Books
Year published	2017-12-08
Number of pages	312
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