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 ...

Not unlike the Essais by the 16th-century humanist Michel de Montaigne, Adorno’s book is not only a series of philosophical experiments but also an exercise in self-portraiture. What Adorno calls ...

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 ...

Some books — like Madeleine Albright’s ”Fascism: A Warning” from 2018, informed by her family’s flight from Nazi-occupied Central Europe — have a personal angle. Some aim for a mass ...

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.

Seventy years after its publication, Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia is a warning against resurgent fascism By Peter E Gordon Minima Moralia is a work of exile. Published just over 70 years ago in ...