Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 2: Social Theory and Politics

Adorno, Theodor W., Walker, Nicholas

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-19
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 280
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  • ISBN: 1509552421
  • ISBN-13: 9781509552429
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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 second volume brings together Adorno's lectures given between 1949 and 1968 on social and political themes. With an engaging and improvisational style, Adorno spoke with infectious vigour about architecture and city planning, the relationship between the individual and society, the authoritarian personality and far-right extremism, political education and the current state of sociology, among other subjects. After Auschwitz, it was incumbent on Germany to undertake intensive memory work and to confront the reality of its own moral destruction, while rebuilding its political and economic systems. To rebuild was taken to mean rediscovery and looking outward, 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 society 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 sociology and politics.

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,並立即以一位領先的公共知識分子的身份嶄露頭角。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。

這本第二卷匯集了阿多諾在1949年至1968年間針對社會和政治主題所做的講座。阿多諾以引人入勝且即興的風格,充滿活力地談論了建築與城市規劃、個體與社會的關係、威權主義人格與極右派極端主義、政治教育以及當前社會學的狀況等主題。在奧斯維辛事件之後,德國有責任進行深入的記憶工作,面對自身道德毀滅的現實,同時重建其政治和經濟體系。重建被理解為重新發現和向外看,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,而是見證社會在現代化過程中對過去的誠實評估。這本書展示了阿多諾對於讓社會遵循與從戰爭恐怖中崛起的現代世界的期望相稱的標準的深切承諾。

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、德國知識與文化歷史,以及社會學和政治感興趣的人來說,這本書都將具有重要價值。

作者簡介

Theodor W. Adorno was one of the leading philosophers and critical theorists of the twentieth century. A brilliant philosopher and social thinker, Adorno was a founding member of the Frankfurt School and he played a crucial role in reformulating Marxism, moving it away from what he and his colleague Max Horkheimer saw as sterile economic determinism in order to stress the cultural and ethical factors that shape history and social life. Their co-authored book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, is a classic of modern social thought and a foundational text in critical theory. Adorno's writings on the Culture Industry transformed our understanding of the ideological underpinnings of modernity and remain deeply influential in media and cultural studies. Having fled Nazism, he developed his thought in exile in the USA before returning to Frankfurt in 1949, where he remained until his death in 1969. He maintained an astonishingly varied set of intellectual interests throughout his life, ranging from philosophy to music, film, art and literature. Polity has published over a dozen books by Adorno, including much of his correspondence and the many volumes of his lectures which are being published posthumously in Germany.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

西奧多·W·阿多諾(Theodor W. Adorno)是二十世紀最重要的哲學家和批判理論家之一。作為一位卓越的哲學家和社會思想家,阿多諾是法蘭克福學派的創始成員之一,他在重新詮釋馬克思主義方面扮演了關鍵角色,將其從他和同事馬克斯·霍克海默(Max Horkheimer)所認為的無趣經濟決定論中轉向,強調塑造歷史和社會生活的文化和倫理因素。他們共同撰寫的書籍《啟蒙的辯證法》(Dialectic of Enlightenment)是現代社會思想的經典之作,也是批判理論的基礎文本。阿多諾對文化產業的著作改變了我們對現代性意識形態基礎的理解,並在媒體和文化研究中持續產生深遠的影響。逃離納粹主義後,他在美國的流亡生活中發展了自己的思想,並於1949年返回法蘭克福,直到1969年去世。他在一生中保持著驚人多樣的知識興趣,涵蓋哲學、音樂、電影、藝術和文學等領域。Polity出版社已出版了阿多諾的十多本著作,包括他的許多信件和在德國後來出版的多卷講座。