Things Beyond Resemblance : Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno

In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and political situation of the United States.

He examines Adorno's thesis that sacrifice is the primordial form of human domination and covers Adorno's New York City writings on radio; his affinities with Wallace Stevens and Nabokov; his complex relationship with Kierkegaard, psychoanalysis, and Walter Benjamin; and his musings on popular music.

Timely and richly analytical, these essays are crucial to the study of critical theory, aesthetics, continental philosophy, and Adorno.