Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno

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things beyond resemblance
COLUMBIATHEMESINPHILOSOPHY, SOCIALCRITICISM, ANDTHEARTS
Collected Essays
resemblance
ROBERT HULLOT-KENTOR
things beyond
on THEODOR W. ADORNO
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Hullot-Kentor, Robert.
Things beyond resemblance : collected essays on
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philosophy, social criticism, and the arts)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-231-13658-7(alk. paper)
1. Adorno, Theodor W., 1903–1969. I. Title.
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T. J. Clark Miriam Bratu Hansen
Arthur C. Danto Robert Hullot-Kentor
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Contents
Acknowledgments XI
Introduction:
Origin Is the Goal
1
Back to Adorno
23
Things Beyond Resemblance
45
The Philosophy of Dissonance:
Adorno and Schoenberg
67
Critique of the Organic:
Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic
77
Second Salvage:
Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music
94
Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and “The Essay as Form”
125
What Is Mechanical Reproduction?
136
Adorno Without Quotation
154