Giorgio Agamben-The Coming Community (1993)
InThe Coming Community, published in Italian in 1990 and translated into English by longtime admirerMichael Hardtin 1993, Agamben …
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Giorgio Agamben-Work
Much of Giorgio Agamben's work since the 1980s can be viewed to leading up to the so-calledHomo Sacer-project, that properly begin…
Giorgio Agamben-Biography
Agamben was educated at theUniversity of Rome, where he wrote an unpublished thesis on the political thought ofSimone Weil. Agambe…
The Authoritarian Personality
The Authoritarian Personalityis a 1950sociologybook byTheodor W. Adorno,Else Frenkel-Brunswik,Daniel Levinson, andNevitt Sanford, …
Topics and themes
The problems posed by the rise of fascism with the demise of theliberalstate and the market (together with the failure of a social…
Historical context
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the new Critical Theory, as Adorno and Horkheimer set out to elaborate it inDialectic…
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Dialectic of Enlightenment(German:Dialektik der Aufklrung) is a work ofphilosophyandsocial criticismwritten byFrankfurt Schoolphil…
Music
In his early essays for the Vienna-based journalAnbruch, Adorno claimed that musical progress is proportional to the composer's ab…
Adorno translated into English
While even German readers can find Adorno's work difficult to understand, an additional problem for English readers is that his Ge…
Adorno's responses to his critics
As a pioneer of a self-reflexive sociology who prefiguredBourdieu's ability to factor in the effect of reflection on the societal …
