{"product_id":"dream-notes-theodor-w-adorno-9780745638300","title":"Dream Notes","description":"\"Dreams are as black as death.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--Theodor W. Adorno\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared in his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDream Notes\u003c\/i\u003e offers a selection of Adornos writings on dreams that span the last twenty-five years of his life. Readers of Adorno who are accustomed to high-powered reflections on philosophy, music and culture may well find them disconcerting: they provide an amazingly frank and uninhibited account of his inner desires, guilt feelings and anxieties. Brothel scenes, torture and executions figure prominently. They are presented straightforwardly, at face value. No attempt is made to interpret them, to relate them to the events of his life, to psychoanalyse them, or to establish any connections with the principal themes of his philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre they fiction, autobiography or an attempt to capture a pre-rational, quasi-mythic state of consciousness? No clear answer can be given. Taken together they provide a highly consistent picture of a dimension of experience that is normally ignored, one that rounds out and deepens our knowledge of Adorno while retaining something of the enigmatic quality that energized his own thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Theodor W. Adorno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745638309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745638300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.72h x 5.81w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 1171","brand":"Theodor W. Adorno","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086793617663,"sku":"9780745638300","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f28ddc3-8786-402c-b321-6703650acf06.jpg?v=1769096616","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dream-notes-theodor-w-adorno-9780745638300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}