Notes to Literature

Summary

Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities of books, political commitment in literature, the light-hearted and the serious in art, and the use of foreign words in writing. This edition presents this classic work in full in a single volume, with a new introduction by Paul Kottman.

Product details

• Authors: Theodor W. Adorno
• Assisted by: Paul Kottman (Introduction), Kottman Paul (Introduction)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2019
• EAN: 9780231179645
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17964-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Philosophy; essays