Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature and the Arts

Adorno, Theodor W., Walker, Nicholas

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-11
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 260
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  • ISBN: 1509552391
  • ISBN-13: 9781509552399
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When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself as a leading public intellectual. Adorno's widespread influence on the postwar debates was due in part to the public lectures he gave outside of the university in which he analysed and commented on social, cultural and political developments of the time.

This first volume brings together Adorno's lectures given between 1949 and 1968 on music, literature and the arts. With an engaging and improvisational style, Adorno spoke with compelling enthusiasm on subjects as diverse as Marcel Proust's prose, Richard Strauss's composition technique and Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire. Germany, restoring its social and intellectual institutions, needed to embrace the new music and writers who had been neglected, particularly with regards to Proust. To rebuild was taken to mean rediscovery, but Adorno also nurtured a vision of tradition which - far from being unthinkingly conservative - would attest to society's honestly-appraised relationship to the past while it underwent the process of modernization. The volume illustrates Adorno's deep commitment to holding contemporary music and culture to standards commensurate with the aspirations of a modern world emerging from the horrors of war.

This volume of his lectures is a unique document of Adorno's startling ability to bring critical theory into dialogue with the times in which he lived. It will be of great value to anyone interested in the work of Adorno and critical theory, in German intellectual and cultural history and in the history of modern music and the arts.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

當西奧多·W·阿多諾從美國的流亡生活回到德國時,他被任命為法蘭克福大學的講師和研究員,並立即以領先的公共知識分子身份嶄露頭角。阿多諾對戰後辯論的廣泛影響,部分源於他在大學外舉辦的公開講座,這些講座中他分析並評論了當時的社會、文化和政治發展。

本卷匯集了阿多諾在1949年至1968年間關於音樂、文學和藝術的講座。阿多諾以引人入勝且即興的風格,充滿熱情地討論了如馬塞爾·普魯斯特的散文、理查德·施特勞斯的作曲技法以及阿諾德·勋伯格的《月光皮埃羅》等多樣主題。德國在重建其社會和知識體系的過程中,需要重新接納那些被忽視的新音樂和作家,特別是關於普魯斯特的作品。重建被理解為重新發現,但阿多諾也培養了一種傳統的視野,這種視野並非盲目保守,而是能夠真誠地評估社會與過去的關係,同時經歷現代化的過程。本卷展示了阿多諾對於將當代音樂和文化與從戰爭恐怖中崛起的現代世界的期望相匹配的標準的深切承諾。

這本講座集是阿多諾驚人能力的獨特文獻,展現了他如何將批判理論與他所生活的時代進行對話。對於任何對阿多諾及其批判理論、德國知識和文化歷史以及現代音樂和藝術歷史感興趣的人來說,這本書都將具有重要價值。

作者簡介

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), a prominent member of the Frankfurt School, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century in the areas of social theory, philosophy and aesthetics.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

西奧多·W·阿多諾(Theodor W. Adorno,1903-1969)是法蘭克福學派的傑出成員,也是20世紀在社會理論、哲學和美學領域中最具影響力的思想家之一。