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Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction
by Bowie, AndrewFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2022-08-26
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Author Biography
Andrew Bowie, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway University of London
Andrew Bowie is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway University of London. He has published very widely on Philosophy, and musical and literary topics, including German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2010); Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language (2010); and Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy (2013).
Table of Contents
1. Life and times
2. The modern subject
3. Nature and history
4. History and freedom
5. The culture industry
6. Society
7. Art and philosophy
8. Doing justice to things
References
Further reading
Index
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