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DARK HORSEY SAYS- Martin Jay's account of Adorno (one of the earliest, I think - & the most reader friendly)"makes the powerful thinker intelligible & even sympathetic while still respecting his essential complexity & asperity". An accountof his career & of the major aspects of his thought, his philosophy, social theory, views of modern culture & aesthetic theory. Adorno's notion of 'force-field', his extension of Benjamin's concept of 'constellation'. Jay distinguishes five main impulses operating in Adorno's thinking- his Marxism, his aesthertic modernism, his mandarin cultural conservatism, his anticipation of deconstructionism, his self-conscious Jewishness. Very good book. |
