Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
Robin Truth Goodman, "Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism "
English | ISBN: 1501342959 | 2020 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1501342959 | 2020 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies.
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