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020			_a9781781681527
082			_a193 _bROS
100			_aRose, Gillian
245			_aMelancholy science : an introduction to the thought of Theodor W. Adorno
260			_bVerso Books, _c2014 _aLondon :
300			_ax, 275 p. ; _c20 cm.
365			_b18.99 _cGBP _d103.20
490			_aRadical Thinkers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe Melancholy Science" is Gillian Rose's investigation into Theodor Adorno's work and legacy. Rose uncovers the unity discernable among the many fragments of Adorno's oeuvre, and argues that his influence has been to turn Marxism into a search for style. The attempts of Adorno, Lukacs and Benjamin to develop a Marxist theory of culture centred on the concept of reification are contrasted, and the ways in which the concept of reification has come to be misused are exposed. Adorno's continuation for his own time of the Marxist critique of philosophy is traced through his writings on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger. His opposition to the separation of philosophy and sociology is shown by examination of his critique of Durkheim and Weber, and of his contributions to the dispute over positivism, his critique of empirical social research and his own empirical sociology. Gillian Rose shows Adorno's most important contribution to be his founding of a Marxist aesthetic that offers a sociology of culture, as demonstrated in his essays on Kafka, Mann, Beckett, Brecht and Schonberg. Finally, Adorno's 'Melancholy Science' is revealed to offer a 'sociology of illusion' that rivals both structural Marxism and phenomenological sociology as well as the subsequent work of the Frankfurt School.
650			_aAdorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
650			_aFrankfurt school of sociology
650			_aCommunism and society
650			_aCommunism and culture
650			_aphilosophy reification
650			_aAntinomy
650			_aCapitalism
650			_aCommodity fetishism
650			_aEpistemology
650			_aDasein
650			_aExistentialism
650			_aFascism
650			_aHistoricism
650			_aHumanism
650			_aIdealism
650			_aImmanent method
650			_aMaterialism
650			_aModernism
650			_aMorality
650			_aNeo - Kantianism
650			_aNon - identity thinking
650			_aPhenomenology
650			_aPositivism
650			_aPsycho analysis
650			_aRealism
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