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Correspondence 1923-1966 / Briefe und Briefwechsel
Edited by Wolfgang Schopf
Among the great letter exchanges, the one between Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer is certainly the most intimate.
The resonance of a passionate friendship which connected both parties from the beginning runs through this correspondence which covers the period from 1923 until Kracauer's death in 1966. Kracauer, the older of the two, remained the more vulnerable throughout his life, the younger of the two was more ruthless in the Storm and Stress of his letters. The extensive...
The resonance of a passionate friendship which connected both parties from the beginning runs through this correspondence which covers the period from 1923 until Kracauer's death in 1966. Kracauer, the older of the two, remained the more vulnerable throughout his life, the younger of the two was more ruthless in the Storm and Stress of his letters. The extensive...
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Among the great letter exchanges, the one between Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer is certainly the most intimate.
The resonance of a passionate friendship which connected both parties from the beginning runs through this correspondence which covers the period from 1923 until Kracauer's death in 1966. Kracauer, the older of the two, remained the more vulnerable throughout his life, the younger of the two was more ruthless in the Storm and Stress of his letters. The extensive correspondence which includes 269 letters is a moving document bearing witness to the attempts of both parties to maintain an intellectual friendship throughout the troubles and fractures of the 20th century.
2008, 772 pages
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Theodor W. Adorno
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Theodor W. Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main and died in 1969. He was a leading German philosopher, and alongside his friends Siegfried Kracauer, Max Horkheimer, and Walter Benjamin, was a key representative of the »Frankfurt School«. The collected and posthumous works of Theodor W. Adorno have been translated into more than 40 languages.
Theodor W. Adorno
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Theodor W. Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main and died in 1969. He was a leading German philosopher, and alongside his...
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Siegfried Kracauer
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Siegfried Kracauer, born in Frankfurt/Main on February 8, 1889, was an architect, sociologist, cultural critic and film theorist. He is considered one of the most important feature writers of the Weimar Republic and was the leading feuilleton editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung from 1930 to 1933. With Die Angestellten (1930), Kracauer published the first empirical-sociologcal study in Germany. He is also considered one of the founders of the sociology of film. In 1933, Kracauer and his wife fled to Paris and then, after the start of the war, to New York in 1941, where he died from pneumonia on November 26, 1966. Apart from Die Angestellten, Kracauer's most important works include Theorie des Films (1960), the collection of essays Von...
Siegfried Kracauer
Author
Siegfried Kracauer, born in Frankfurt/Main on February 8, 1889, was an architect, sociologist, cultural critic and film theorist. He is considered...
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Theodor W. Adorno, Ludwig von FriedeburgYear of Publication: 2024
Theodor W. Adorno and Ludwig von Friedeburg, Correspondence, 1950–1969
Soon after the Institute for Social Research returned to Frankfurt from its exile in the US, a young student applied for a position with Theodor W. Adorno: Ludwig von Friedeburg, the son of the second-last commander-in-chief of the Kriegsmarine and himself Germany’s youngest submarine commander in the Second World War. Their first project together was the famous »Group Experiment«, a study funded...
Year of Publication: 2024
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2024
On Combatting Antisemitism Today
In the autumn of 1962, Theodor W. Adorno participated in a conference organised by an umbrella organisation for cooperation between Christian and Jewish groups, where he spoke about the task of...
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Year of Publication: 2023
Theodor W. Adorno, Rudolf KolischYear of Publication: 2023
Correspondence 1926–1969
In March 1925, 21-year-old Dr. Theodor Wiesengrund moves to Vienna for a few months to continue his training in composition with Alban Berg. Berg introduces him to the Vienna string quartet and its 28-year-old lead violinist Rudolf Kolisch, one of the most important interpreters of the New Music of the Schönberg school. Adorno and Kolisch quickly become friends and begin an extensive...
Year of Publication: 2021
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2021
Posthumous Writings. Section IV: Lectures
In the winter semester of 1963/64, Theodor W. Adorno gives a lecture at Frankfurt University that leads to the very core of his philosophy: the theory of dialectics. In an intensive examination of Hegel and Marx in particular, he uses Questions of Dialectics to characterise his own conception of dialectical philosophy as a radically non-conformist movement of thought that does not...
Year of Publication: 2021
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The Mass Ornament
Kracauer described his 1929 study on the salaried masses as an exploration of the »exoticism of the everyday, more adventurous than a film journey to Africa«, and this description could...
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Year of Publication: 2020
Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst KrenekYear of Publication: 2020
Correspondence 1929-1964
In June 1923, Symphony No. 2 by composer Ernst Krenek – only twenty-two years of age at the time – was first performed as part of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein’s Musicians Festival in Kassel. In the audience sat a 19-year-old philosopher who had just started writing his dissertation, showed great interest in music and who experienced this performance as a shock: Theodor W....
Year of Publication: 2019
Siegfried KracauerYear of Publication: 2019
Ginster
A novel with a »shirker« as the hero: Ginster, a gifted architect from Frankfurt, is 25 when the First World War breaks out. He views the patriotic enthusiasm of his contemporaries with...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019
Posthumous Writings. Section V: Lectures and Conversations
When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his American exile in 1949, he not only resumed his teaching and research at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Institute for Social Research,...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019
Remarks on ›The Authoritarian Personality‹ and Other Texts
In 1948 Theodor W. Adorno wrote a text on the authoritarian personality which remained unpublished until today and that is not so much a retrospective look at the barbarism of the Nazis but first...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Siegfried KracauerYear of Publication: 2019
Theory of Film
This book was originally published in America in 1960, and immediately assumed a position among the classic works of film theory by authors such as Béla Balázs, Rudolf Arnheim, and André Bazin. The book articulates a material aesthetics that tackles the content of film. Kracauer’s theory is founded on the assumption that film is in essence an expansion of photography,...
Year of Publication: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019
Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism
On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical...
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Year of Publication: 2015
Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom ScholemYear of Publication: 2015
Correspondence 1939 - 1969
»I really like him and we find that we have an awful lot to say to each other« Gershom Scholem wrote to Walter Benjamin in 1938. With »he« Scholem meant Theodor W. Adorno, the man whom...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Siegfried KracauerYear of Publication: 2010
The Detective Novel
Written in 1925, in this work, Siegfried Kracauer shows again why he was such a unique writer and cultural theorist. He takes the much-maligned genre of the detective novel and subjects it to a...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2005
Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction
At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2005
Dream Protocols
In early January 1956, Adorno noted: »Our dreams are not simply connected to one another by virtue of being ›ours‹ but also because they form a continuum, belong to a consistent world,...
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Year of Publication: 2004
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2004
Beethoven
Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive...
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Year of Publication: 1997
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1997
Collected Writings in 20 Volumes
As the primary figure behind Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, as an essayist and critic of society, a music theorist and composer, a sociologist and high-school teacher, Adorno made a...
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Year of Publication: 1994
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1994
Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments
The extensive edition of Adorno’s posthumous writings expands the Collected Writings and together with the fragmentary works collects editions of his lectures, papers, and discussions as well as...
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Year of Publication: 1987
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1987
Philosophy of Modern Music
Created between 1940 and 1948 while Adorno was in exile in the United States, elements of a dialectic of the contemporary mind are developed by way of a concrete object in Philosophy of Modern...
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Year of Publication: 1974
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1974
Philosophical Terminology
In regard to its content, Philosophical Terminology is an introduction to an engagement with philosophy in general as a reflective and simultaneously relevant behaviour. Through the shape...
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