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Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments
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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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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Remarks on ›The Authoritarian Personality‹ and Other Texts
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In 1948 Theodor W. Adorno wrote a text on the authoritarian personality which remained unpublished until today and that is not so much a retrospective look at the barbarism of the Nazis but first...

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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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Posthumous Writings. Section IV: Lectures
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...

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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Minima Moralia
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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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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Beethoven
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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Collected Writings in 20 Volumes
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: 2016
Valentin BeckYear of Publication: 2016
What We Owe People Living in Abject Poverty

At the beginning of the 21st century, still a large part of the global population is living in abject poverty. This leads to the burning question of what the citizens of wealthy countries owe desperately poor people from a moral point of view.


Valentin Beck answers this question in the context of a comprehensive theory of global responsibility. In his brilliantly...


Year of Publication: 2014
Georg W. BertramYear of Publication: 2014
An Aesthetics

In the theory and philosophy of art, it is common practice to emphasize the difference between art and other human practices. This hinders the tangibility of the plurality of art forms and the...

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Year of Publication: 2024
Georg W. BertramYear of Publication: 2024
Hermeneutics and Critical Theory
Theories of understanding and critical theories are often understood as opposing positions. In his new book, Georg W. Bertram shows that this need not be so. As he conceives it, understanding is constitutively linked to processes of critique and self-critique – processes that are themselves rooted in conflict. For this reason, understanding, where it occurs, is not self-evident, but part of...

Year of Publication: 1921
Ernst BlochYear of Publication: 1921
Of the philosophers who shaped the 20th century, Ernst Bloch was the thinker of departure, resistance and anticipatory consciousness. His leitmotifs »the principle of hope, walking...
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Year of Publication: 1918
Ernst BlochYear of Publication: 1918

In the summer of 1918 the world is knee-deep in blood: the war has already claimed millions of victims, the Spanish influenza is spreading, in Russia the revolution is turning into a civil war....

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Year of Publication: 2015
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 2015

In the 1950s and 1960s, Hans Blumenberg considered combining a philosophy of technology with a philosophy of time, which is only rarely mentioned today. This may be due to the fact that he never wrote a »Philosophy of Technology« – however, a series of shorter writings in which he develops his idea on the subject poignantly were found in his literary...


Year of Publication: 2000
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 2000

The Corruptibility of the Philosopher is an account of the unlucky, grotesque or simply unpleasant cases in which the life and the works of philosophers cannot be aligned. An active...

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Year of Publication: 2010
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 2010
To mark the 90th anniversary of Hans Blumenberg’s birth, Suhrkamp is bringing out a posthumous text in which the philosopher provides a radical new view of the issue of the...
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Year of Publication: 2013
Hans Blumenberg, Jacob TaubesYear of Publication: 2013
and related documents
A piece of intellectual history from the former West Germany


The correspondence between Hans Blumenberg and Jacob Taubes is a document of a rich though not entirely smooth relationship between two intellectuals who could not have been more different: On the one hand, Hand Blumenberg, whose works constitute one of the most impressive contributions to 20th century German philosophy; on the...

Year of Publication: 2018
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 2018

On the 27th of April 1988, the 50th anniversary of the death of Edmund Husserl, Hans Blumenberg noted: »The century now rushing towards its end will be regarded with hindsight by philosophy-historians as the ‘century’ of Phenomenology.« This prognosis is also an indicator of his own philosophical legacy: a phenomenological anthropology as developed by Blumenberg throughout his lifelong debate...

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