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" The melancholy science : "
Gillian Rose.
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BL
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855554
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Rose, Gillian
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The melancholy science : : an introduction to the thought of Theodor W. Adorno /\ Gillian Rose.
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| Edition Statement
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Paperback edition.
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London :: Verso,, 2014.
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, ©2014
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Radical thinkers
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x, 275 pages ;; 20 cm.
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178168152X
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: 9781781681527
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Originally published : Macmillan Press Ltd, 1978.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The crisis in culture -- The search for style -- The lament over reification -- A changed concept of dialectic -- The dispute over positivism -- The dispute over modernism -- The melancholy science -- Glossary -- List of abbreviations of titles -- Notes and references -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Name index.
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"The 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 Schönberg. 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. -- Provided by publisher.
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Adorno, Theodor W.,1903-1969.
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Adorno, Theodor W.,1903-1969.
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Kölner Künstlervereinigung Stil
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Communism and culture.
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Communism and society.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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Communism and culture.
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Communism and society.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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Philosophie
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Soziologie
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Verdinglichung
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| Dewey Classification
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193
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301.01
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HM22.G3A37 2014HM479.A36
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HM477.G3R67 2014
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