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Theodor W. Adorno, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası dönemin önde gelen filozof ve toplum kuramcılarından biridir. Eleştirel Kuramın gelişmesinde önemli rolü olan, özgün ve de genellikle zor olan yazıları sadece temel felsefi sorular ileri sürmekle kalmayıp aynı zamanda edebiyat, sanat, müzik, sosyoloji ve siyaset kuramına ilişkin derin analizler de sunar.

Bu kapsamlı kitapta Brian O’Connor, Adorno’nun felsefesini, onun eserleriyle ilk kez karşılaşanlara açıklamaktadır. O’Connor, bu amaçla, yaşamı ve entelektüel çevresinin bağlamını oluşturan ana felsefi görüşleri aracılığıyla Adorno felsefesinin merkezi unsurlarını değerlendiriyor. Bu bağlamda Aydınlanmanın diyalektiği, şeyleşme, bütünsellik, dolayımlama, özdeşlik, özdeşsizlik, deneyim, negatif diyalektik, içkinlik, özgürlük, özerklik ve sanatta taklit gibi kavramları, felsefesinin temel alanları üzerinden tartışıyor.

Kronoloji ve terimler sözlüğünün yanı sıra ek okuma önerileri de içeren Adorno, felsefe, edebiyat, sosyoloji ve kültürel çalışmalarla ilgilenenler için ideal bir giriş kitabı...

264 pages, Paperback

First published October 13, 2011

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Profile Image for Michael.
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April 11, 2015
Brian O’Connor’s Adorno is a rock solid piece of philosophical explanation. In it, O’Connor delineates the key concepts of Adorno’s arguments from mimesis to reification to totality to autonomy. In the process, he shows how Adorno’s work on art, epistemology and metaphysics has deeply ethical roots based upon his critique of totality and the imperative to deny the world another Auschwitz.

The book serves as an excellent companion piece to O’Connor’s other book, Adorno’s Negative Dialectic, even as it covers some of the same ground. Here, however, O’Connor presents a picture of how Adorno engages and returns to key concepts throughout his philosophical enterprise. From his early works on social critique to the late piece, Aesthetic Theory, Adorno is incredibly consistent in thinking through mediation and nonidentity over against system philosophies. In this, O’Connor shows that though Adorno shunned systematic philosophical methodology, there remains a constellation of recurring concepts and treatment of the history of philosophy that produced a sustained critique of the philosophical tradition and the triumph of instrumental reason.

The book will not likely cause a reader of Adorno to rethink key ideas, but as a text that sets out to explicate Adorno’s thinking, it is incredibly accessible and useful.
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October 3, 2013
This is the clearest and philosophically more precise introduction to Adorno's thought I read. Highly recommended.
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March 27, 2018
One of the best introductions to Adorno's difficult and seminal thought. Could have more on the dialectic.
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September 23, 2022
Great primer...the book I'll pull off the shelf when I need to pretend that I understand Adorno's Negative Dialectics
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