by Theodor W. Adorno (Author)
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities of books, political commitment in literature, the light-hearted and the serious in art, and the use of foreign words in writing. This edition presents this classic work in full in a single volume, with a new introduction by Paul Kottman.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Edition: combined edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03 Sep 2019
ISBN 10: 0231179642
ISBN 13: 9780231179645
Rolf Tiedemann (1932-2018) was the editor of Adorno's complete works.
Shierry Weber Nicholsen is a practicing psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in Seattle. She is the author of Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics (1997) and the translator of a number of books by Adorno, including Hegel: Three Studies (1994); Habermas, including Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (2001); and other members of the Frankfurt School.
Paul Kottman is associate professor of comparative literature and chair of liberal studies at the New School. His books include Disinheriting the Globe: Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (2009).