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My Lithuanian Driving License
Year of Publication: 2017
Felix AckermannYear of Publication: 2017
Excursions at the EU’s End

What is holding Europe together? What have Lithuanians done over the last quarter of a century with their recently won freedom? And how does the European Union function at the furthest reaches of...

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Relational Revolutions
Year of Publication: 2017
Bini AdamczakYear of Publication: 2017
1917, 1968 and Revolutions to Come

It has now been more than 100 years since the Russian Revolution began. The student movement of 1968, on the other hand, is more present, since closer, in our historical consciousness. Time then, to consider the events of 1917 through the prism of 1968 and bring both revolutions into a relationship of mutual critique. While 1917 was focused on the nation, 1968 targeted the individual. In the...


Correspondence 1930 - 1940
Year of Publication: 2005
Gretel Adorno, Walter BenjaminYear of Publication: 2005
The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin began in 1930, but only after Benjamin’s emigration to France did it reach its full intensity, standing not only as a testament to...
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Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism
Year of Publication: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019
A Lecture

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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Correspondence 1939 - 1969
Year of Publication: 2015
Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom ScholemYear of Publication: 2015

»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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Theodor W. Adorno and Ludwig von Friedeburg, Correspondence, 1950–1969
Year of Publication: 2024
And other materials
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...

Posthumous Writings. Section V: Lectures and Conversations
Year of Publication: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019
Volume 1: Lectures 1949-1968

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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Aesthetic Theory
Year of Publication: 1973
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1973

The »Aesthetic Theory« is Adorno’s last major work which was close to completion when he died. It is considered one of his main workds and was undoubtedly planned as such by Adorno: Aesthetic...

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Against Epistemology: A Metacritique & Hegel: Three Studies
Year of Publication: 1963
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1963

This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on...

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Philosophy of Modern Music
Year of Publication: 1987
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1987

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: 1960
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1960
A Musical Physiognomy

»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...

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Year of Publication: 1951
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1951
Reflections from Damaged Life

»The thorn in your eye is the best magnifying glass.«

Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about...

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Year of Publication: 2004
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2004
The Philosophy of Music. Fragments and texts

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: 1994
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1994
Volume 3: Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory
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: 2008
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...
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Year of Publication: 1997
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1997
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: 2024
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2024
With an afterword by Jan Philipp Reemtsma
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: 2005
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2005
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: 2021
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2021
Volume 11: Questions of Dialectics (1963/64)
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: 2019
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 2019

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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