Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism

Robin Truth Goodman is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. She is the author or editor of ten previous books, including Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat (2017) and, as editor, Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (2016).

• Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Understanding Adorno, Understanding ModernismRobin Truth GoodmanSection 1: Adorno’s Keywords 1 Adorno and Beyond: The Modern as Critique of ModernismMax Paddison, Durham University, UK 2 Under the Skin of Modernity: The SubcutaneousBrigit Antonia Hofstätter, Stockholm University, Sweden 3 Mimesis Unto DeathRobin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USASection 2: Adorno’s Aesthetics4 Adorno on VinylJeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA 5 Critique, Complexity, Content: Adorno and Musical Modernism since 1970Larson Powell, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA6 Between the Culture Industry and Art: Adorno’s Approach to FilmStefanie Baumann, University is New University of Lisbon, Portugal7 How It Is (after Auschwitz): Adorno and BeckettJean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA8 Thinking Through and Beyond Modernism: Adorno and Contemporary PerformanceSabine Wilke, University of Washington, USA9 Re-Reading Adorno’s Reading of Eichendorff in the Context of 1957Christian P. Weber, Florida State University, USA10 Adorno and the Ethics of CampHeidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois at Chicago, USASection 3: Adorno’s Constellations11 Art and Animals in AdornoCamilla Flodin, Uppsala University, Sweden 12 The Art of Dehumanization: Adorno’s AnimalsNatalie Lozinski-Veach, University of West Georgia, USA13 Social Labor and the Work of Art, According to AdornoUlrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA14 Conspiracy Against Theory: Super-Agents, Conspirators, and the Educational Legacies of PositivismKenneth J. Saltman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA15 Aspects of Adorno’s Critical Theory of CultureStefan Müller-Doohm, University of Oldenburg, GermanyTrans. Daniel SteuerAcknowledgmentsIndex

Reading this dazzling collection of essays is like gazing through a kaleidoscope after a fresh constellation of colored glass has been created by a twist of the hand. For readers who think they already know everything that Adorno had to say about modernism and modernity, the results will be both illuminating and unsettling.