A companion to Adorno /
"This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a brief biographical overview of Adorno's life and thought, with an emphasis on the key turning points in his career. It discusses his childhood, his education in Frankfurt, his musical studies, his emigration first to Oxford and then to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
71. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a brief biographical overview of Adorno's life and thought, with an emphasis on the key turning points in his career. It discusses his childhood, his education in Frankfurt, his musical studies, his emigration first to Oxford and then to the United States, his return to Germany after World War Two, his tenure as professor at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and his prominence as a public intellectual, and his confrontation with students. Together with biographical details the chapter also offers a simple overview of Adorno's major concerns as a philosopher"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 660 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119146933 1119146933 1119146925 9781119146940 1119146941 9781119146926 |