Adorno and Philosophical Modernism
Adorno and Philosophical
Modernism
The Inside of Things
Roger S. Foster
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Title: Adorno and philosophical modernism : the inside of things / Roger S. Foster.
Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. | Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Abbreviations
Works by Adorno
GS | Gesammelte Schriften (Frankfurt am Main: Surhkamp, 1970). |
NS | Nachgelassene Schriften (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1993). |
The following books are cited in the text with German page numbers followed by English page numbers, and have their own abbreviations for ease of reference. I have usually followed the English translation. I provide the German in cases where I have made an alteration.
AT | Aesthetic Theory (GS 7). English: trans. R. Hullot Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). |
DA | Dialectic of Enlightenment (GS 3). English: trans. J. Cumming (London and New York: Verso, 1979). |
MM | Minima Moralia (GS 4). English: trans. E. Jephcott (London and New York: Verso, 1974). |
P | Prisms (GS 10). English: trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber (Massachusetts, MA: MIT Press, 1981). |
Essays cited in German and English
AP | The Actuality of Philosophy (GS 1). English: trans. B. Snow, Telos 31 (Spring 1977): 120133. |
EF | The Essay as Form (GS 11). English: trans. R. Hullot Kentor and F. Will, New German Critique 32 (SpringSummer, 1984) 151171. |
The following works have been cited solely in German due to the unavailability of reliable, published translations
sthetik, 1958/9 lectures (NS IV:3). |
JE | Jargon der Eigentlichkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1964). |
ND | Negative Dialektik (GS 6).* |
OD | Ontologie und Dialektik, 1961 lectures (NS IV:7). |
PT | Philosophische Terminologie ,vols. 12, 1962-3 lectures (Frankfurt am Main: Surhkamp, 19734). |
* In the case of Negative Dialektik, while the bulk of the translations are my own work, I have occasionally relied on the excellent translation made available online by Dennis Redmond at http://members.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.html.
Works cited in English
K | Kants Critique of Pure Reason, 1959 lectures. Trans. R. Livingstone (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001). |
3St | Hegel:Three Studies, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993). |
FCM | On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression in Listening, in The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978) 270299. |
Other Works
Bonnefoy, Yves
E | Entretiens sur la posie (Paris: Mercure de France, 1990). |
I | Limprobable et autres essais (Paris: Gaillimard, 1980). |
Hegel, G. W. F
PhG | Phenomenology of Spirit. German: Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1948. English: trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977). |
SL | Science of Logic, trans. A. V. Miller (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1989). |
Heidegger, Martin
BT | Being and Time, trans. Macquarrie and Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962). |
OWA | Origin of the Work of Art, in Basic Writings, ed. D. Farrell Krell (London: Routledge, 1978). |
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
CL | The Lord Chandos Letter, in The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings, trans. J. Rotenberg (New York: The New York Review of Books, 2005) 117128. |
Kant, Immanuel
KrV | Critique of Pure Reason. German: Frankfurt am Main: Surhkamp, 1974. English: ed. and trans. P. Guyer and A. W. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). |
KU | Critique of the Power of Judgment. German: Frankfurt am Main: Surhkamp, 1974. English: ed. P. Guyer, trans. P. Guyer and E. Matthews (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). |
Musil, Robert
D | Diaries18991941, trans. P. Payne (New York: Basic Books, 1998). |
MWQ | The Man Without Qualities, vols. 1 and 2, trans. S. Wilkins (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1995). |
PS | Precision and Soul, ed. and trans. B. Pike and D. S. Luft (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). |
Nietzsche, Friedrich
PaT | Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsches Notebooks of the Early 1870s, ed. and trans. D. Breazeale (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979). |
Woolf, Virginia
JR | Jacobs Room, ed. K. Flint (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). |
MD | Mrs. Dalloway (London: Harcourt Brace, 1925). |
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