Posts tagged ‘Theodor W. Adorno’
The contingency of cheese
On Fredric Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realism
by David Cunningham / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Fredric Jameson has been a busy man over the last decade. As well as two massive tomes on science fiction and modernism, combining republished essays with extensive new material, there has been a trilogy of books on Hegel and Marx which have sought to defend dialectical thinking from its discontents both internal and external to …
Look at his marvellous hands!
by Esther Leslie / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Review
Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, 2013. 336 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 30015 193 0.
Yvonne Sherratt’s book on the response of philosophers to the Third Reich is written in the style of a docudrama. There are colourful descriptions of foliage in Heidegger’s Todtnauberg and peasants in ‘folksy …
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Review
Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?
Adorno Prize Lecture
by Judith Butler / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Article
I am most honoured to be here on this occasion to receive the Adorno Prize.* I would like this evening to talk to you about a question that Adorno posed, one that is still alive for us today. It is a question to which I return time and again, one that continues to …
Elementary
by David Cunningham / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / Review
Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries, Unkant, London, 2011. 217 pp., £10.99 pb., 978 0 95681 760 0.
David Cunningham
In a much-cited March 1936 letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno famously remarks of the separation between autonomous art and mass culture that, while both ‘bear the stigmata of capitalism’, and ‘both contain elements of …
167 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans and Mark Neocleous / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Reviews
‘Never a fascist’?
Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993, translated with an introduction by Zakir Paul, foreword by Kevin Hart, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010. 200 pp.
Howard Caygill
It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it …
The absolute artwork meets the absolute commodity
by Stewart Martin / RP 146 (Nov/Dec 2007) / Article
143 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Kaye Mitchell, Sas Mays, Sean Sayers and Jesse Cohn / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) / Reviews
Theodor W. Adorno, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory Ben Watson
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology Kaye Mitchell
Jason Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography Sas Mays
Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1 Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 Sean Sayers
Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and …
Doing something and doing nothing
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project
by Esther Leslie / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
Mirrors without images
Mimesis and recognition in Lacan and Adorno
by Vladimir Safatle / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006) / Article
The Dreambird of Experience
Utopia, Possibility, Boredom
by Peter Osborne / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article
Nihilism and faith
Rose, Bernstein and the future of Critical Theory
by Tony Gorman / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005) / Article
NOISETHEORYNOISE#1, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, 6 March 2004
by Ben Watson / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004) / Conference Report
Uncategorical imperatives
Adorno, Badiou and the ethical turn
by Peter Dews / RP 111 (Jan/Feb 2002) / Article
No Man’s Land
Reading Kant historically
by Howard Caygill / RP 110 (Nov/Dec 2001) / Article
In 1784 Kant published an essay for a journal that represented the public face of an Enlightenment secret society of senior officials in the administration of Frederick II. In the forty-fourth year of Frederickʼs reign it was necessary to plan for the succession and to ensure as far as possible the irreversibility of the achievements …
New German aesthetic theory
Martin Seel’s art of diremption
by Austin Harrington / RP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001) / Article
Gillian Rose and the project of a Critical Marxism
by Tony Gorman / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / Article
The work of Gillian Rose (1947–1995) displays a prodigious range equal to that of any British intellectual of her generation. Her output consists of eight books produced over a seventeen-year period between 1978 and her early death in 1995. The authorship falls into two distinct periods: a first phase, from 1978 to 1984, which includes …
Backwoods musicology
Roger Scruton’s aesthetics of music
by Ben Watson / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000) / Commentary
The contingency of cheese
On Fredric Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realismby David Cunningham / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Fredric Jameson has been a busy man over the last decade. As well as two massive tomes on science fiction and modernism, combining republished essays with extensive new material, there has been a trilogy of books on Hegel and Marx which have sought to defend dialectical thinking from its discontents both internal and external to …
Look at his marvellous hands!
by Esther Leslie / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / ReviewYvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, 2013. 336 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 30015 193 0.
Yvonne Sherratt’s book on the response of philosophers to the Third Reich is written in the style of a docudrama. There are colourful descriptions of foliage in Heidegger’s Todtnauberg and peasants in ‘folksy …
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / ReviewKevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?
Adorno Prize Lectureby Judith Butler / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Article
I am most honoured to be here on this occasion to receive the Adorno Prize.* I would like this evening to talk to you about a question that Adorno posed, one that is still alive for us today. It is a question to which I return time and again, one that continues to …
Elementary
by David Cunningham / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012) / ReviewBen Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries, Unkant, London, 2011. 217 pp., £10.99 pb., 978 0 95681 760 0.
David Cunningham
In a much-cited March 1936 letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno famously remarks of the separation between autonomous art and mass culture that, while both ‘bear the stigmata of capitalism’, and ‘both contain elements of …
167 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans and Mark Neocleous / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Reviews‘Never a fascist’?
Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993, translated with an introduction by Zakir Paul, foreword by Kevin Hart, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010. 200 pp.
Howard Caygill
It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it …
The absolute artwork meets the absolute commodity
by Stewart Martin / RP 146 (Nov/Dec 2007) / Article143 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Kaye Mitchell, Sas Mays, Sean Sayers and Jesse Cohn / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) / ReviewsTheodor W. Adorno, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory Ben Watson
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology Kaye Mitchell
Jason Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography Sas Mays
Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1 Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 Sean Sayers
Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and …
Doing something and doing nothing
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines projectby Esther Leslie / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
Mirrors without images
Mimesis and recognition in Lacan and Adornoby Vladimir Safatle / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006) / Article
The Dreambird of Experience
Utopia, Possibility, Boredomby Peter Osborne / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Article
Nihilism and faith
Rose, Bernstein and the future of Critical Theoryby Tony Gorman / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005) / Article
NOISETHEORYNOISE#1, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, 6 March 2004
by Ben Watson / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004) / Conference Report
Uncategorical imperatives
Adorno, Badiou and the ethical turnby Peter Dews / RP 111 (Jan/Feb 2002) / Article
No Man’s Land
Reading Kant historicallyby Howard Caygill / RP 110 (Nov/Dec 2001) / Article
In 1784 Kant published an essay for a journal that represented the public face of an Enlightenment secret society of senior officials in the administration of Frederick II. In the forty-fourth year of Frederickʼs reign it was necessary to plan for the succession and to ensure as far as possible the irreversibility of the achievements …
New German aesthetic theory
Martin Seel’s art of diremptionby Austin Harrington / RP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001) / Article
Gillian Rose and the project of a Critical Marxism
by Tony Gorman / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / ArticleThe work of Gillian Rose (1947–1995) displays a prodigious range equal to that of any British intellectual of her generation. Her output consists of eight books produced over a seventeen-year period between 1978 and her early death in 1995. The authorship falls into two distinct periods: a first phase, from 1978 to 1984, which includes …
Backwoods musicology
Roger Scruton’s aesthetics of musicby Ben Watson / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000) / Commentary
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