{"id":147,"date":"2014-02-19T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adornostudies.wordpress.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2014-02-19T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:13:49","slug":"two-books-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Two books of interest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent books on Adorno may be of interest to our readers\u0014.\u0014<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>First<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essex.ac.uk\/philosophy\/staff\/profile.aspx?ID=1136\" target=\"_blank\">Fabian Freyenhagen<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Adorno&#8217;s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge, 2013). Available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adornos-Practical-Philosophy-Wrongly-European\/dp\/1107036542\/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1392818683&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=practical+philosophy+aodrno\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/31dx-zjkffl.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-148\" alt=\"31dx-ZjKfFL\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/31dx-zjkffl.jpg?resize=331%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/31dx-zjkffl.jpg?w=331&amp;ssl=1 331w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/31dx-zjkffl.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/ndpr.nd.edu\/news\/46242-adorno-s-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cla.temple.edu\/philosophy\/faculty\/espen-hammer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Espen Hammer<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freyenhagen&#8217;s book successfully challenges the widespread approach to Adorno as a non-doctrinal thinker. It is a splendid and extremely lucid attempt at reconstructing an Adornian practical philosophy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE: Until August, Cambridge is offering a 20% discount on the book: http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/knowledge\/academic_discountpromotion\/?site_locale=en_US&amp;code=FABIAN14<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the table of contents to Freyenhagen&#8217;s book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:90px;\">Introduction<br \/>\n1. The whole is untrue<br \/>\n2. No right living<br \/>\n3. Social determination and negative freedom<br \/>\n4. Adorno&#8217;s critique of moral philosophy<br \/>\n5. A new categorical imperative<br \/>\n6. An ethics of resistance<br \/>\n7. Justification, vindication, and explanation<br \/>\n8. Negativism defended<br \/>\n9. Adorno&#8217;s negative Aristotelianism<br \/>\nAppendix: the jolt \u2013 Adorno on spontaneous willing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second<\/strong>, is Brian O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Adorno\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge, 2013). Also available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adorno-Routledge-Philosophers-Brian-OConnor\/dp\/0415367360\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1392818717&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=o%27connor+adorno\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/41il79im2bl.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149\" alt=\"41Il79IM2BL\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/41il79im2bl.jpg?resize=316%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"316\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/41il79im2bl.jpg?w=316&amp;ssl=1 316w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/41il79im2bl.jpg?resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, from a <a href=\"http:\/\/ndpr.nd.edu\/news\/41463-adorno\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/136704\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Finlayson<\/a> in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Introductions such as Brian O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Adorno<\/em>\u00a0(the latest in The\u00a0Routledge\u00a0Philosophers series)\u00a0are a genre in their own right with their proper demands.\u00a0One task is to initiate non-expert readers into the world of\u00a0Adorno, and to make it accessible to the non-specialist without oversimplifying. Another is to give readers an overview of\u00a0Adorno&#8217;s\u00a0entire work situating each aspect of it in relation to the others.\u00a0O&#8217;Connor meets these demands deftly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are the contents of O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:90px;\">1. Adorno\u2019s Life and Philosophical Motivations<br \/>\n2. Society<br \/>\n3. Experience<br \/>\n4. Metaphysics<br \/>\n5. Freedom and Morality<br \/>\n6. Aesthetics<br \/>\n7. Philosophical Legacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please send us news of your Adorno related publications!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent books on Adorno may be of interest to our readers\u0014.\u0014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,16],"tags":[39,40,41,22,42,78,77],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-theodor-w-adorno","tag-brian-oconnor","tag-espen-hammer","tag-fabian-freyenhagen","tag-gordon-finlayson","tag-practical-philosophy","tag-publications","tag-theodor-w-adorno"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}