Demoralised by the emergence of fascism and Stalinism, Adorno and Horkheimer increasingly junked what was left of their socialist phraseology in the 1940s. In his book on the Frankfurt School, ...

For Adorno, fascism’s deeper persistence was undeniable. ... His newest book is A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity, forthcoming later this year.

Books & the Arts / A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School’s leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness.

In a chapter from his World War II-era book dubbed "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1947), German Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno hypothesized that capitalist media producers prioritize marketability ...

Mikko Immanen's new book Adorno's Gamble is out with Cornell University Press. Adorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, usually seen as a ...

Theodor W. Adorno, a leading scholar of fascism, once commented that fascism “within democracy” is potentially “more menacing than [. . .] fascistic tendencies against democracy.” ...

Bloch’s book is only one of the numerous little-known or underappreciated works that Toscano draws upon, although usual suspects like Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci and Theodor Adorno certainly ...

A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness.