A definitive contribution to scholarship on Adorno, bringing together the foremost experts in the fieldAs one of the leading continental philosophers of the last century, and one of the pioneering members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor W. Adorno is the author of numerous influential--and at times quite radical--works on diverse topics in aesthetics, social theory, moral philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy, all of which concern the contradictions of modern society and its relation to human suffering and the human condition. Having authored substantial contributions to critical theory which contain searching critiques of the 'culture industry' and the 'identity thinking' of modern Western society, Adorno helped establish an interdisciplinary but philosophically rigorous study of culture and provided some of the most startling and revolutionary critiques of Western society to date.The Blackwell Companion to Adorno is the largest collection of essays by Adorno specialists ever gathered in a single volume. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, this important contribution to the field explores Adorno's lasting impact on many sub-fields of philosophy. Seven sections, encompassing a diverse range of topics and perspectives, explore Adorno's intellectual foundations, his critiques of culture, his views on ethics and politics, and his analyses of history and domination.* Provides new research and fresh perspectives on Adorno's views and writings* Offers an authoritative, single-volume resource for Adorno scholarship* Addresses renewed interest in Adorno's significance to contemporary questions in philosophy* Presents over 40 essays written by international-recognized experts in the fieldA singular advancement in Adorno scholarship, the Companion to Adorno is an indispensable resource for Adorno specialists and anyone working in modern European philosophy, contemporary cultural criticism, social theory, German history, and aesthetics.

Notes on Contributors ixEditors' Introduction xvAbout the Editors xixPart I Intellectual Foundations 11 Adorno: A Biographical Sketch 3Peter E. Gordon2 Adorno's Inaugural Lecture: The Actuality of Philosophy in the Age of Mass Production 21Roger Foster3 Reading Kierkegaard 35Marcia Morgan4 Guilt and Mourning: Adorno's Debt to and Critique of Benjamin 51Alexander Stern5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School 67Sherry D. LeePart II Cultural Analysis 856 The Culture Industry 87Fred Rush7 Adorno and Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism 103Fabian Freyenhagen8 Adorno and Jazz 123Andrew Bowie9 Adorno's Democratic Modernism in America: Leaders and Educators as Political Artists 139Shannon Mariotti10 Inhuman Methods for an Inhumane World: Adorno's Empirical Social Research, 1938-1950 153Charles ClaveyPart III History and Domination 17311 Adorno and Blumenberg: Nonconceptuality and the Bilderverbot 175Martin Jay12 Philosophy of History 193Iain Macdonald13 The Anthropology in Dialectic of Enlightenment 207Pierre-François Noppen14 Adorno's Reception of Weber and Lukács 221Michael J. Thompson15 Adorno's Aesthetic Model of Social Critique 237Andrew Huddleston16 The Critique of the Enlightenment 251Martin ShusterPart IV Social Theory and Empirical Inquiry 27117 "Nothing is True Except the Exaggerations:" The Legacy of the Authoritarian Personality 273David Jenemann18 Exposing Antagonisms: Adorno on the Possibilities of Sociology 287Matthias Benzer and Juljan Krause19 Adorno and Marx 303Peter Osborne20 Adorno's Three Contributions to a Theory of Mass Psychology and Why They Matter 321Eli Zaretsky21 Adorno and Postwar German Society 335Jakob NorbergPart V Aesthetics 34922 Aesthetic Autonomy 351Owen Hulatt23 Adorno and Literary Criticism 365Henry W. Pickford24 Adorno as a Modernist Writer 383Richard Eldridge25 Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 397Eva Geulen26 Aesthetic Theory as Social Theory 413Peter Uwe Hohendahl27 Adorno, Music, and the Ineffable 427Michael Gallope28 Adorno and Opera 443Richard LeppertPart VI Negative Dialectics 45729 What is Negative Dialectics?: Adorno's Reevaluation of Hegel 459Terry Pinkard30 Adorno's Critique of Heidegger 473Espen Hammer31 Concept and Object: Adorno's Critique of Kant 487J. M. Bernstein32 Critique and Disappointment: Negative Dialectics as Late Philosophy 503Max Pensky33 Negative Dialectics and Philosophical Truth 519Brian O'Connor34 Adorno and Scholem: The Heretical Redemption of Metaphysics 531Asaf Angermann35 Adorno's Concept of Metaphysical Experience 549Peter E. GordonPart VII Ethics and Politics 56536 After Auschwitz 567Christian Skirke37 Forever Resistant? Adorno and Radical Transformation of Society 583Maeve Cooke38 Adorno's Materialist Ethic of Love 601Kathy J. Kiloh39 Adorno's Metaphysics of Moral Solidarity in the Moment of its Fall 615James Gordon FinlaysonIndex 631