Companion to Adorno

Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Liberal Arts of Temple University. He has held professorships at the University of Oslo and the University of Essex. Max Pensky is Professor of Philosophy and co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

• Notes on Contributors ixEditors’ Introduction xvAbout the Editors xixPart I Intellectual Foundations 11 Adorno: A Biographical Sketch 3Peter E. Gordon2 Adorno’s Inaugural Lecture: The Actuality of Philosophy in the Age of Mass Production 21Roger Foster3 Reading Kierkegaard 35Marcia Morgan4 Guilt and Mourning: Adorno’s Debt to and Critique of Benjamin 51Alexander Stern5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School 67Sherry D. LeePart II Cultural Analysis 856 The Culture Industry 87Fred Rush7 Adorno and Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism 103Fabian Freyenhagen8 Adorno and Jazz 123Andrew Bowie9 Adorno’s Democratic Modernism in America: Leaders and Educators as Political Artists 139Shannon Mariotti10 Inhuman Methods for an Inhumane World: Adorno’s Empirical Social Research, 1938–1950 153Charles ClaveyPart III History and Domination 17311 Adorno and Blumenberg: Nonconceptuality and the Bilderverbot 175Martin Jay12 Philosophy of History 193Iain Macdonald13 The Anthropology in Dialectic of Enlightenment 207Pierre-François Noppen14 Adorno’s Reception of Weber and Lukács 221Michael J. Thompson15 Adorno’s Aesthetic Model of Social Critique 237Andrew Huddleston16 The Critique of the Enlightenment 251Martin ShusterPart IV Social Theory and Empirical Inquiry 27117 “Nothing is True Except the Exaggerations:” The Legacy of the Authoritarian Personality 273David Jenemann18 Exposing Antagonisms: Adorno on the Possibilities of Sociology 287Matthias Benzer and Juljan Krause19 Adorno and Marx 303Peter Osborne20 Adorno’s Three Contributions to a Theory of Mass Psychology and Why They Matter 321Eli Zaretsky21 Adorno and Postwar German Society 335Jakob NorbergPart V Aesthetics 34922 Aesthetic Autonomy 351Owen Hulatt23 Adorno and Literary Criticism 365Henry W. Pickford24 Adorno as a Modernist Writer 383Richard Eldridge25 Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory 397Eva Geulen26 Aesthetic Theory as Social Theory 413Peter Uwe Hohendahl27 Adorno, Music, and the Ineffable 427Michael Gallope28 Adorno and Opera 443Richard LeppertPart VI Negative Dialectics 45729 What is Negative Dialectics?: Adorno’s Reevaluation of Hegel 459Terry Pinkard30 Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger 473Espen Hammer31 Concept and Object: Adorno’s Critique of Kant 487J. M. Bernstein32 Critique and Disappointment: Negative Dialectics as Late Philosophy 503Max Pensky33 Negative Dialectics and Philosophical Truth 519Brian O’Connor34 Adorno and Scholem: The Heretical Redemption of Metaphysics 531Asaf Angermann35 Adorno’s Concept of Metaphysical Experience 549Peter E. GordonPart VII Ethics and Politics 56536 After Auschwitz 567Christian Skirke37 Forever Resistant? Adorno and Radical Transformation of Society 583Maeve Cooke38 Adorno’s Materialist Ethic of Love 601Kathy J. Kiloh39 Adorno’s Metaphysics of Moral Solidarity in the Moment of its Fall 615James Gordon FinlaysonIndex 631