NonFiction
Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments
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Against Epistemology: A Metacritique & Hegel: Three Studies
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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Collected Writings in 20 Volumes
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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In 1948 Theodor W. Adorno wrote a text on the authoritarian personality which remained unpublished until today and that is not so much a retrospective look at the barbarism of the Nazis but first...
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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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Minima Moralia
»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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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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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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Posthumous Writings. Section IV: Lectures
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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A Theory of Global Responsibility
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...
Art as Human Practice
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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The Freedom of Understanding
The Spirit of Utopia
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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Thomas Münzer as a Theologian of the Revolution
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The Naked Truth
From the early modern period and increasingly so since from the Enlightenment onwards, divine privilege of possessing unconditional truth has been challenged and made more democratic. The...
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The Laughter of the Thracian Woman
»An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, […] The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from...
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Contributions to the Problem of the Originality of the Medieval-Scholastic Ontology
In 1947, Hans Blumenberg from Bargteheide in Holstein submits his doctoral thesis entitled »Contributions to the Problem of the Originality of the Medieval-Scholastic Ontology« and written under the most difficult personal circumstances to the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.
In it, Blumenberg presents an examination of the thought of the Christian Middle Ages, with constant...
Reality and Realism
What do we mean when speaking about reality? What does realism of thoughts mean? How do humans come in contact with reality and become conscious of it? These fundamental questions occupied Hans Blumenberg all through his life, and they remained important undercurrents in many of his books. He never published a monograph about these topics, but he had been planning to do so, as documents in his...
Theory of the Life-World
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