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Adorno (German) [aˈdɔrno] n (Biographies / Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903-1969) M, German, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, SOCIAL SCIENCE: sociologist, MUSIC: critic) Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903-69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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it turns out, this is a massive understatement, for, as in earlier
writings by Tafuri, obfuscation is overpoweringly present, and any
message the author might wish to disseminate is obscured by the
pretentiousness and incomprehensibility of his ludicrously opaque
language, influenced no doubt by his Marxist stance and by people such
as Adorno and Foucault (which might explain, of course, why some find it
profound). Adorno writes that "this strange idea of the
truth as something lasting and enduring somehow always appears where
urban exchange ideas have developed" (26). Verso Books has published a new series of books called Radical
Thinkers which has inexpensively ($12 for each book) repackaged the
philosophy and critical theory books of Adorno, Baudrillard, Derrida,
Eagleton, Virilio, Williams, Zizek, and others (www. |
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