Notes to Literature
Author | : Theodor W. Adorno |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780231550291 |
ISBN-13 | : 0231550294 |
Rating | : 4/5 (294 Downloads) |
Download or read book Notes to Literature written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, 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.