Kierkegaard
Construction of the Aesthetic
Theodor W. Adorno
Robert Hullot-Kentor, editor
Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor
Foreword by Robert Hullot-Kentor
Theodor Adorno’s first major published work appeared in German bookshops in February 1933. Kierkegaard challenges not only the founder but also the whole tradition of existentialism, and played an important role in the formation of the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory.
. . . of importance to scholars of existentialism, intellectual history, and Adorno.
Francisca Goldsmith, Library Journal
Theodor Adorno’s first major published work appeared in German bookshops in February 1933. Kierkegaard challenges not only the founder but also the whole tradition of existentialism, and played an important role in the formation of the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory.
$22.50 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-1187-4
200 pages, 6 x 9, 1989
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) authored more than twenty volumes, including Aesthetic Theory (published by the University of Minnesota Press), Negative Dialectics, Philosophy of Modern Music, and (with Max Horkheimer) Dailectic of Enlightenment.
Robert Hullot-Kentor is associate professor of humanities at Southhampton College. He has written widely on Adorno and has translated various of his works, including Aesthetic Theory.
. . . of importance to scholars of existentialism, intellectual history, and Adorno.
Francisca Goldsmith, Library Journal
This brief book, perhaps the most accessible of Adorno’s works available in English. Contains the kernel of almost all the themes he developed in later writings.
Academic Library Book Review
A significant contribution to the distinguished series in which it appears.
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism