Adorno's Aesthetics of Music

by Paddison and Max Paddison

Book Overview

The main aim of this book is to provide a conceptual context within which to situate Adorno's writings on music. It has quickly established itself as a classic text. Paddison surveys the early writings from the 1920s and examines Adorno's idiosyncratic reception of Marx and Freud. He then discusses Adorno's approach to analysis, and to the sociology of music, and his philosophy of history. The study closes with a critical assessment of Adorno's concept...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521626080
• ISBN13: 9780521626088
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"