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Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Paper, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13659-4
$24.50
/ £14.50
October, 2006
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13658-7
$36.00
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"I urge anyone who entertains doubts about the emperor's attires to read Hullot-Kentor's brilliant and definitive deconstruction of Jameson in Things Beyond Resemblance." — Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine
"Here, under the optic of the artist, Adorno's philosophy once again begins to breathe..." — Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archiv, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings
"Although each section was written independently and can stand on its own, an exhilarating effect is produced by situating them together-much in the same way that an individual painting is transformed when thoughtfully incorporated into an exhibit." — Thomas Wheatland, Assumption College
"Things Beyond Resemblance is a book Adorno scholars will appreciate . . . [and] should prove to be a valuable resource." — ThomasWheatland, H-German
"Theodor W. Adorno is among the most potent theoretical legislators of our time and Robert Hullot-Kentor is a brilliant expositor of his ideas. Hullot-Kentor writes with an elegant brio all his own, bringing wit and fire to the most difficult subjects and exploring them in provocative and imaginative ways." — Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
"Just as Robert Hullot-Kentor's new translations of Adorno's main works are a stroke of good fortune for philosophical literature, in his Things Beyond Resemblance he presents completely new and altogether original aspects of Adorno's thought. Here, under the optic of the artist, Adorno's philosophy once again begins to breathe; indeed, the philosopher and philologist that Hullot-Kentor equally is, gives voice to Adorno's aesthetics and its own often artistic prose. This occurs most astoundingly, however, when the American author undertakes to comprehend the current political and social situation of his country in the concepts and theories of the German philosopher and thus demonstrates beyond any doubt Adorno's undiminished contemporary import." — Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archive, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings