Auteur: Rodney Livingstone

The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, …

The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, …

‘Even the biographical individual is a social category’, wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns …

Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: ‘We are all equal in the …

‘Even the biographical individual is a social category’, wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns …

Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: ‘We are all equal in the …

Theodor Adorno is one of this century’s most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical ma …

Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a …

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An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbule …

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of ‘critical theory’, Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism …

Tactics and Ethics collects Georg Luk�cs’s articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet …

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent …

History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg Luk�cs’s early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a major …

He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at ho …