Adorno Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848859470)

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.

Author: Geoff Boucher
ISBN-10: 1848859473
ISBN-13: 9781848859470
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2012
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.80w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2013