Claussen, Detlev.

Theodor W. Adorno : one last genius / Detlev Claussen ; translated by Rodney Livingstone. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. - 440 p. : ill.

Translated from the German. Originally published as Theodor W. Adorno: Ein letztes Genie, (c) S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2003.

Instead of an overture : no heirs -- The house in Schöne Aussicht : a Frankfurt childhood around 1910 -- From Teddie Wiesengrund to Dr. Wiesengrund-Adorno -- Adorno as "non-identical" man -- Transitions -- Bertolt Brecht : "to those who come after us" -- Theodor W. Adorno : "out of the firing-line" -- Hanns Eisler, the non-identical brother -- Fritz Lang, the American friend -- Frankfurt transfer -- Adorno as "identical" man -- The palimpsest of life. HKBU library

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Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.


Philosophers--Germany
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

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