Adorno and Democracy The American Years

Informationen zum Autor Shannon Mariotti is associate professor of political science at Southwestern University. She is the author of Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity. Klappentext German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966). Forced out of Nazi Germany because of his Jewish heritage, Adorno lived in exile in the United States for nearly fifteen years. In Adorno and Democr Zusammenfassung German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. Forced out of Nazi Germany because of his Jewish heritage, Adorno lived in exile in the US for nearly fifteen years. Shannon Mariotti explores how this extended visit prompted a concern for and commitment to democracy that shaped his work.

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Shannon Mariotti is associate professor of political science at Southwestern University. She is the author of Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Shannon L. Mariotti, Shannon L Mariotti
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 22.07.2016
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780813167336
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-6733-6
• Pages: 234
• Subjects: Soziale und politische Philosophie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Politische Strukturen / Systeme: Demokratie