Things Beyond Resemblance

Robert Hullot-Kentor has taught philosophy, literature, and the arts at Harvard, Boston University, Stanford, and Long Island University. He has translated several of Adorno's major works, including Aesthetic Theory, and has recently published Current of Music, a reconstruction of Adorno's unfinished study of radio broadcast music.

Here, under the optic of the artist, Adorno's philosophy once again begins to breathe... -- Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archiv, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings I urge anyone who entertains doubts about the emperor's attires to read Hullot-Kentor's brilliant and definitive deconstruction of Jameson in Things Beyond Resemblance. -- Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine Although each section was written independently and can stand on its own, an exhilarating effect is produced by situating them together-much in the same way that an individual painting is transformed when thoughtfully incorporated into an exhibit. -- Thomas Wheatland, Assumption College Things Beyond Resemblance is a book Adorno scholars will appreciate... [and] should prove to be a valuable resource. -- Thomas Wheatland H-German

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Origin Is the Goal Back to Adorno Things Beyond Resemblance The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg Critique of the Organic: Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and "The Essay as Form" What Is Mechanical Reproduction? Adorno Without Quotation Popular Music and "The Aging of the New Music" The Impossibility of Music Apple Criticizes Tree of Knowledge: A Review of One Sentence Right Listening and a New Type of Human Being Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Recovery of the Public World Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno Introduction to T. W. Adorno's "The Idea of Natural-History" The Idea of Natural-History, Theodor W. Adorno Index