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Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most distinguished American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers together sixteen essays he has written about the philosopher over the past twenty years. The opening essay, "Origin Is the Goal," pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and pol

Reflections are offered on the future of critical theory, focusing on the writings of Theodor W. Adorno. Several issues are discussed, including Adorno's critique of theory, his work in relation to that of Walter Benjamin, efforts by Adorno to prevent the fetishization of the language of his work, contemporary academic culture, & the treatment of critical theory & Adorno's work in the journal Telos over the last twenty years.

Examined is how the US reception of Theodor W. Adorno's work, particularly The Dialectic of Enlightenment (New York: Continuum Press, 1978), has been misrepresented by poor translations, which have resulted in the wide acceptance of Jurgen Habermas's interpretation of Adorno's writings on reason, aesthetics, & the Enlightenment. Habermas's reading of Adorno's critical theory as a neo-Kantian version of communication theory is discussed, & non-Kantian reading of Adorno's project is presented. The considerable intellectual distance separating the first generation of critical theorists from its contemporary heirs is also examined. W. Howard