false 2432183 3 <p> He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.â€* An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno&rsquo;s day—and its ongoing importance in our own. </p><p> The biography begins at the shining moment of the German bourgeoisie, in a world dominated by liberals willing to extend citizenship to refugees fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe. Detlev Claussen follows Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903&ndash;1969) from his privileged life as a beloved prodigy to his intellectual coming of age in Weimar Germany and Vienna; from his exile during the Nazi years, first to England, then to the United States, to his emergence as the Adorno we know now in the perhaps not-so-unlikely setting of Los Angeles. There in 1943 with his collaborator Max Horkheimer, Adorno developed critical theory, whose key insight—that to be entertained is to give one&rsquo;s consent—helped define the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century. </p><p> In capturing the man in his complex relationships with some of the century&rsquo;s finest minds—including, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann, Siegfried Kracauer, Georg Lukács, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht—Claussen reveals how much we have yet to learn from Theodor Adorno, and how much his life can tell us about ourselves and our time. </p> 2439371 30 4 2003 Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius total:7|4:3|3:2|2:1|1:1| 7 21 21 2 4 0 false false Fri Jan 23 16:29:49 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 19:09:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:27:50 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 23:42:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 16:20:41 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 16:20:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 19:29:03 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 19:29:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 04:31:49 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 04:31:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 16 18:04:15 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 18:04:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 01 14:10:17 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 14:10:19 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Jan 08 17:53:27 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 18:08:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Dec 19 09:34:17 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:34:17 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Dec 07 07:18:05 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 04 21:11:31 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:28:01 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:28:01 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Nov 05 10:44:01 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 10:44:05 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Mar 12 12:05:11 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 26 11:39:48 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 12 12:05:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 22 19:17:47 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 19:17:47 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Sep 16 09:20:23 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 05:48:25 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 09:20:23 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jun 30 20:57:24 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 20:57:29 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jun 28 16:58:48 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 16:58:52 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue May 13 11:35:01 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 11:35:01 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon May 05 09:35:58 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 09:36:02 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Apr 13 21:20:18 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 19:44:21 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2432183