Critical Models

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He is the author of such seminal works as Minima Moralia, The Philosophy of New Music, and, with Max Horkheimer, The Dialectic of Enlightenment.Lydia Goehr is professor of philosophy and aesthetic theory at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music and The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy.

[A] collection of essays that offers a view of Adorno in his role as... public intellectual... Adorno's essays are truly urgent. The Nation Critical Models... introduce[s] a more accessible Adorno to the public... In an age of cynicism and practicality, he is more essential than ever. Los Angeles Times Book Review

• Preface Reviewing Adorno: Public Opinion and Critique by Lydia Goehr Interventions: Nine Critical Models Introduction Why Still Philosophy Philosophy and Teachers Note on Human Science and Culture Those Twenties Prologue to Television Television as Ideology Sexual Taboos and Law Today The Meaning of Working Through the Past Opinion Delusion Society Catchwords: Critical Models 2 Introduction Notes on Philosophical Thinking Reason and Revelation Progress Gloss on Personality Free Time Taboos on the Teaching Vocation Education After Auschwitz On the Question: "What is German?" Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America Dialectical Epilegomena: On Subject and Object Marginalia to Theory and Praxis Critical Models 3 Critique Resignation Appendixes Appendix 1: Discussion of Professor Adorno's Lecture "The Meanings of Working through the Past" Appendix 2: Introduction to the Lecture "The Meaning of Working Through the Past" Publication Information Notes Index