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Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments

Volume 3: Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory
Edited and with an introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
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Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments / Nachgelassene Schriften. Abteilung I: Fragment gebliebene Schriften
Volume 3: Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory
Edited and with an introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
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 notebooks.
 


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Section I: Fragment gebliebene Schriften

   Volume 1: Beethoven. Philosophie der Musik

   Volume 2: Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion

   Volume...

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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 notebooks.
 


Content
 

Section I: Fragment gebliebene Schriften

   Volume 1: Beethoven. Philosophie der Musik

   Volume 2: Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion

   Volume 3: Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory


Section II: Philosophische Notizen (ca. 5 Volumes)


Section III: Poetische Versuche (1 Volume)


Section IV: Vorlesungen

   Volume 1: Erkenntnistheorie (1957/58)

   Volume 2: Einführung in die Dialektik (1958)

   Volume 3: Ästhetik (1958/59)

   Volume 4: Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1959)

   Volume 5: Einleitung in die Philosophie (1959/60)

   Volume 6: Philosophie und Soziologie (1960)

   Volume 7: Ontologie und Dialektik (1960/61)

   Volume 8: Ästhetik (1961/62)

   Volume 9: Philosophische Terminologie (1962/63)

   Volume 10: Probleme der Moralphilosophie (1963)

   Volume 11: Fragen der Dialektik (1963/64)

   Volume 12: Philosophische Elemente einer Theorie der Gesellschaft (1964/65)

   Volume 13: Zur Lehre von der Geschichte und der Freiheit (1964/65)

   Volume 14: Metaphysik. Begriff und Probleme (1965)

   Volume 15: Einleitung in die Soziologie (1968)

   Volume 16: Vorlesung über Negative Dialektik (Fragmente zur Vorlesung 1965/66)

   Volume 17: Kranichsteiner Vorlesungen (mit DVD)

   Volume 18: Stichworte und Steogramm-Fragmente zu nicht erhaltenen Vorlesungen


Section V: Vorträge und Gespräche (ca. 2 Volumes)

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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 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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Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction
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Beethoven
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