Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities of books, political commitment in literature, the light-hearted and the serious in art, and the use of foreign words in writing. This edition presents this classic work in full in a single volume, with a new introduction by Paul Kottman.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction to the Combined Edition, by Paul A. Kottman
Volume 1
Translator’s Preface, by Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Editorial Remarks from the German Edition, by Rolf Tiedemann
Part I
1. The Essay as Form
2. On Epic Naiveté
3. The Position of the Narrator in the Contemporary Novel
4. On Lyric Poetry and Society
5. In Memory of Eichendorff
6. Heine the Wound
7. Looking Back on Surrealism
8. Punctuation Marks
9. The Artist as Deputy
Part II
10. On the Final Scene of Faust
11. Reading Balzac
12. Valéry’s Deviations
13. Short Commentaries on Proust
14. Words from Abroad
15. Ernst Bloch’s Spuren
16. Extorted Reconciliation: On Georg Lukács’ Realism in Our Time
17. Trying to Understand Endgame
Volume 2
Translator’s Preface, by Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Editorial Remarks from the German Edition, by Rolf Tiedemann
Part III
18. Titles: Paraphrases on Lessing
19. Toward a Portrait of Thomas Mann
20. Bibliographical Musings
21. On an Imaginary Feuilleton
22. Morals and Criminality: On the Eleventh Volume of the Works of Karl Kraus
23. The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer
24. Commitment
25. Presuppositions: On the Occasion of a Reading by Hans G. Helms
26. Parataxis: On Hölderlin’s Late Poetry
Part IV
27. On the Classicism of Goethe’s Iphigenie
28. On Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop: A Lecture
29. Stefan George
30. Charmed Language: On the Poetry of Rudolf Borchardt
31. The Handle, the Pot, and Early Experience: Ui, haww’ ich gesacht
32. Introduction to Benjamin’s Schriften
33. Benjamin the Letter Writer
34. An Open Letter to Rolf Hochhuth
35. Is Art Lighthearted?
Notes
Index
Über den Autor
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), an eminent critic, philosopher, and social theorist, was one of the major intellectual voices of the twentieth century and a leading member of the Frankfurt School. His many classic works include Minima Moralia, The Philosophy of New Music, Critical Models, Aesthetic Theory, Negative Dialectics, and, with Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Rolf Tiedemann (1932–2018) was the editor of Adorno’s complete works.Shierry Weber Nicholsen is a practicing psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in Seattle. She is the author of Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno’s Aesthetics (1997) and the translator of a number of books by Adorno, including Hegel: Three Studies (1994); Habermas, including Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (2001); and other members of the Frankfurt School.Paul Kottman is associate professor of comparative literature and chair of liberal studies at the New School. His books include Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe (2009).
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