Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature (Studies in Philosophy)

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by  Ulrich Plass

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Excerpts from Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, newly
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University of Minnesota. Original German-language edition copyright 1970 by Suhrkamp Verlag. Used
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Excerpts from Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, translated by Edmund Jephcott, Dialectic of
Enlightenment. Copyright (c) 1944 by Social Studies Association, NY. New edition: (c) S. Fischer Verlag
GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 1969; English trans. (c) 2002 Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Jr. Univer-
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Excerpts from Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature, vols. 1 and 2, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated
by Sherry Weber Nicholsen. English language copyright (c) 1991 and 1992 by Columbia University Press.
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Excerpts from Theodor W. Adorno, Prisms, translated by Sam and Sherry Weber. English language copy-
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Excerpt from The Works of Stefan George, translated by Olga Marx and Ernst Morwitz. Copyright (c) 1949
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Language and history in Theodor W. Adorno’s notes to literature / Ulrich Plass.
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1. Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. Noten zur Literatur. 2. Literature--History and
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Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Note on Translations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xv
Introduction
Adorno’s Literary Criticism xxi
Chapter One
The Art of Transition 1
Chapter Two
Rauschen: Eichendorff 49
Chapter Three
Conjuration: Rudolf Borchardt 73
Chapter Four
As If: Stefan George 89
Chapter Five
The Wound: Heine 115
Chapter Six
Exhaustion: Goethe 153
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Conclusion 175
Notes 179
Bibliography 225
Index 243
List of Abbreviations
WORKS BY THEODOR W. ADORNO:
In German:
BG: Beethoven: Philosophie der Musik
GS: Gesammelte Schriften
PT: Philosophische Terminologie
In English:
AP: “The Actuality of Philosophy”
AT: Aesthetic Theory
BE: Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music
CM: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords
DE: Dialectic of Enlightenment
HS: Hegel: Three Studies
JA: The Jargon of Authenticity
K: Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic
MM: Minima Moralia
ND: Negative Dialectics
NH: “The Idea of Natural History”
NL: Notes to Literature
WORKS BY ADORNO AND WALTER BENJAMIN:
BW: Briefwechsel 1928-1940
CC: The Complete Correspondence 1928-1940
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