Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

'A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.' --Susan Sontag A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register

Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback)

Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that

Notes to Literature (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback)

Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, H lderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities

Towards a New Manifesto (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of 'critical theory', Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism. Towards a New Manifesto shows the two philosophers in a uniquely spirited and

Aesthetic Theory (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback / softback)

Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback / softback)

Essays on Music (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and-more than any other subject-music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of

Problems of Moral Philosophy (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback)

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the leading social thinkers of the twentieth century, long concerned himself with the problems of moral philosophy, or 'whether the good life is a genuine possibility in the present.' This book consists of a course of seventeen lectures given in May-July 1963

Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962 (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback)

Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and

Negative Dialectics (Adorno Theodor Wiesengrund)(Paperback)

The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of

The Stars Down to Earth (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption. He engages with some of his most

Aesthetics (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback)

This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958-9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works. The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work of Georg Luk cs to a

In Search of Wagner (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray

The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete (Swanson Ryan)(Paperback)

- Theodore Roosevelt's Popularity in Marketplace: From massive biographies to tiny slices of his life, Teddy Roosevelt has proven time and again to be a figure who sells books, and 2020 will mark the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library - Slice of Teddy Roosevelt's Biography as

The Authoritarian Personality (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

This hugely influential study on the psychology of authoritarianism was written in answer to Hitler's Germany--and now rings more relevant than ever as fascism and anti-Semitism sweep across America. What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far

Aesthetics and Politics (Adorno Theodor)(Paperback)

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are

The Strenuous Life (Roosevelt Theodore)(Paperback)

'The Strenuous Life' is a collection of essays and speeches by American President Theodore Roosevelt including the title speech 'The Strenuous Life' in which he argues that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were ideals to be embraced by Americans for the betterment of the nation. Also

REFLECTIONS LIFE PORTRAITS OF EXMOOR(Paperback)

Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death (Holloway Richard)(Paperback)

A Sunday Times bestseller, this is a moving and profound exploration of life's greatest mystery from one of the most revered religious figures of our

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (Roosevelt Theodore)(Paperback)

Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson--had so many opinions and intellectual interests, believed in so many causes, or worked so hard to translate his beliefs into action. A hard-headed

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance (Derman Emanuel)(Paperback)

Constellations - Reflections From Life (Gleeson Sinead)(Paperback / softback)

An extraordinarily intimate book of essays that chart the experiences that have made Sinead Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today, for readers of The Last Act of Love and I Am, I Am, I

All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (Rosengarten Theodore)(Paperback)

Theodore Boone: The Abduction - Theodore Boone 2 (Grisham John)(Paperback / softback)

Following on from the number one bestseller Theodore Boone, John Grisham delivers high intensity legal drama for a new generation of