Adorno Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers For The Arts (contemporary Thinkers Reframed)
by Geoffrey Boucher /
2013 / English / PDF
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Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture
in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) is one
of the most provocative and important yet least understood of
contemporary thinkers. This book challenges this popular image
and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed
authentic art could save the world.Adorno Reframed is not only
a comprehensive introduction to the reader coming to Adorno for
the first time, but also an important re-evaluation of this
founder of the Frankfurt School. Using a wealth of concrete
illustrations from popular culture, Geoffrey Boucher recasts
Adorno as a revolutionary whose subversive irony and profoundly
historical aesthetics defended the integrity of the individual
against social totality.
Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture
in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) is one
of the most provocative and important yet least understood of
contemporary thinkers. This book challenges this popular image
and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed
authentic art could save the world.Adorno Reframed is not only
a comprehensive introduction to the reader coming to Adorno for
the first time, but also an important re-evaluation of this
founder of the Frankfurt School. Using a wealth of concrete
illustrations from popular culture, Geoffrey Boucher recasts
Adorno as a revolutionary whose subversive irony and profoundly
historical aesthetics defended the integrity of the individual
against social totality.
