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Adorno

The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture

By Theodor W. Adorno

Library Binding | 9780415105675

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The Stars Down to Earth is the first collection of Theodor Adorno's key papers on the irrational and mass culture. The essays in The Stars Down To Earth offer an analysis of the irrational dimensions of modern culture which is both timely and disturbing in the 1990s, although they wereContinue

The Stars Down to Earth is the first collection of Theodor Adorno's key papers on the irrational and mass culture. The essays in The Stars Down To Earth offer an analysis of the irrational dimensions of modern culture which is both timely and disturbing in the 1990s, although they were written by Adorno half a century ago. Adorno's ideas are relevant to the understanding of phenomena as apparently diverse as astrology and ``New Age'' cults, the power of neo-fascist propaganda and the re-emergence of anti-Semitism, and the psychological basis of popular culture.

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    In 1968 Hannah Arendt edited Illuminations, the first collection of essays by Walter Benjamin to appear in English. At that time little was known about Benjamin outside Germany, except that he was a talented and idiosyncratic literary critic who had ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

  • Should We Adore Adorno?

    No art appears as remote as music from the life and the society that produce it. Painting and sculpture reflect some aspects of the figures and objects or at least the forms and colors that we encounter; novels and poems convey experiences and aspira ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Library Binding 240 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0415105676
  • ISBN-13: 9780415105675
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Pub date: Dec 01, 1994
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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