Theodor W. Adorno
Study Guide

• T.W. Adorno on Solidarity and Isolation
• T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism
• "Dialectics Not a Sociology of Knowledge" by Theodor W. Adorno
• The Privilege of Experience by Theodor W. Adorno
• Adorno on Metaphysics, Philosophical Questions, History, Sociology, & Culture
• Adorno on Truth, Survival, Consolation & Freedom of Thought
• T.W. Adorno on Spengler, Heidegger, and the Intellectual's Capitulation to Power
• Adorno on Metaphysical Experience, Mysticism & Tradition
• T.W. Adorno on Theory, Practice, & Moral Philosophy
• T.W. Adorno on Kant, the Division of Labor & Restriction of Reason
• “Resignation” (Excerpts) by Theodor W. Adorno
• "Theses Against Occultism" by Theodor W. Adorno
• "Inside and Outside" by T.W. Adorno
• T.W. Adorno on the Division of Philosophy & Labor
• "Philosophy & the Division of Labor" by Max Horkheimer & T.W. Adorno
• Adorno on Brecht
• Jeffrey Herf on Reactionary Modernism & Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Criticism of “Contemporary Society” and “Negative Dialectics” (Excerpts on Adorno) by E. Batalov
• Adorno's Negative Dialectic by Howard Williams
• Adorno and the Frankfurt School by Jack Lindsay
• R. Dumain's Critique of Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Adorno & the Dualities by Ralph Dumain
• "Heidegger's Jargon" by Ralph Dumain
• Adorno contra Husserl by Ralph Dumain

Other Critical Theorists & Related Persons

• Ideology (Frankfurt Institute for Social Research)
• Max Horkheimer on Materialism vs Positivism & Metaphysics
• Cynicism & Conformity by Max Horkheimer
• Concerning Resentment by Max Horkheimer
• A Different Kind of Criticism [of Religion: Excerpt] by Max Horkheimer
• The Philosophical Critique of Science and the Neopositivist Critique of Philosophy in the Weimar Republic by Helmut Dubiel
• Max Horkheimer's Materialism: The Struggle with Traditional Theory, Science, Positivism, & Irrationalism by Ralph Dumain
• On Goldmann, Lukacs, Heidegger, and Adorno by Ralph Dumain
• Marxism & Totality & Gramsci & Della Volpe by Ralph Dumain
• Philosophy and Critical Theory (Excerpt: Philosophy and Class Society) by Herbert Marcuse
• The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Phenomenology) by Herbert Marcuse
• Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation (Herbert Marcuse & Karl Popper)
• "Charles Reich as Revolutionary Ostrich" by Herbert Marcuse
• On Science and Phenomenology by Herbert Marcuse
• Comment on the Paper by H. Marcuse by Aron Gurwitsch
• One-Dimensional Man: From Operationalism to Zen by Herbert Marcuse
• One-Dimensional Man: Classical Philosophy, the Division of Labor, Abstraction & Practice by Herbert Marcuse
• One-Dimensional Man: A New Science? by Herbert Marcuse
• "From Hegel to Marcuse" by Lucio Colletti
• Man in the “Industrial Society”: Is Herbert Marcuse’s “Critical Theory of Society” Critical? by Yuri Zamoshkin & Ninel Motroshilova
• Notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution by Ralph Dumain
• "The Reactionary Philosophy, Ambiguous Aesthetics, and Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse" [draft] by Ralph Dumain
• “Reactionary Philosophy and Ambiguous Aesthetics in the Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse—A Review Essay” by Ralph Dumain [PDF file]
• Sigfried Kracauer on History and Non-simultaneity
• "Historical Remarks on the Question of Organization" by Jürgen Habermas
• "Komunika Etiko kaj Esperantismo" [Communication Ethics & Esperantism] de Helmut Welger
• Metacritique Critiqued by R. Dumain
• Black Folk and the Struggle in ‘Philosophy’ by Lucius T. Outlaw
• Consciousness and Society: A Review by R. Dumain
• Lukács’ Lost Manuscript Tailism and the Dialectic Reviewed by R. Dumain
• Simple and Higher Categories of the Dialectic by Georg Lukács
• "Existentialism" by Georg Lukács
• Georg Lukacs on Nazism & Irrationalism: The Unity of Cynicism & Credulity
• Lukács on Wittgenstein
• Intellectual and Manual Labor by Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Contents; Extracts
• Walter Benjamin on Bertolt Brecht's Lao Tzu
• "Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties" by Bertolt Brecht
• Brecht on Theatre: Entertainment, Instruction, Science, Dialectics
• On Hegelian Dialectics by Bertolt Brecht
• “Marx and Critical Scientific Thought” by Mihailo Marković
• “The Concept of Critique in Social Science” by Mihailo Marković
• Reification by Gajo Petrović
• Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary by R. Dumain
• 2003 Reading Review by Ralph Dumain
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain

Offsite Links (English-Language Sources) on Adorno

• Adorno texts / Libertarian Communist Library
  • The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (complete & most readable online)
  • Culture Industry Reconsidered
  • On Popular Music
  • Negative Dialectics, translation 2001 by Dennis Redmond (but see also same translation below with added notes)
• The Theodor Adorno Internet Archive (Marxists Internet Archive)
  • Minima Moralia, translation 2005 by Dennis Redmond
• Negative Dialectics, translation 2001 by Dennis Redmond
• Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?
• Quotes: Theodor W. Adorno
• Minima Moralia: No. 122 Monograms
• Some writings of Adorno (A sample of Adorno's ideas on the culture industry and popular music)
• Music and Language: A Fragment
• Chaplin Times Two
• Le Prix du Progress (from Dialectic of Enlightenment)
• TANGENTS: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
• Culture Industry Reconsidered [PDF file]
• "Subject and Object"
• Adorno on Wittgenstein's Indescribable Vulgarity
• Frederik van Gelder [under construction]
  • lecture 2 + editor's postscript: Lectures on Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
  • "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?" by Theodor W. Adorno
  • "Adorno, Philosopher and Composer. On the Occasion of his piano pieces" by Rolf Tiedemann
  • "Adorno's concept of dialectics - a paradigm for the present?" by Frederik van Gelder
  • The Freudian Turn in Western Marxism - Psychoanalysis and Politics in the work of Theodor W. Adorno by Frederik van Gelder
  • Do the Mass Media trivialize the Holocaust? Reflections on Horkheimer and Adorno's 'culture industry' concept by Frederik van Gelder
• Reading Adorno by Evelyn Wilcock
• Adorno Presentation Quotations
• Asking Adorno About Postmodern Popular Theatre by Terence Smith
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Theodor Adorno
• Theodor Adorno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Postmodern Thought: Adorno
• PopCultures.com | Theorists and Critics | Theodor Adorno [inactive?]
• Illuminations: Theodor Adorno
• Theodor Adorno - Theory.org.uk
  • Theodor Adorno - Theory.org.uk trading cards
• T.W. Adorno: A Bibliography of Work in English

Offsite essays

• "Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodological Inquiry Into the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno" by Stephen Bronner, Section One
• Enlightenment Revival by Stephen Eric Bronner
• "Language, Mythology, and Enlightenment: Historical Notes on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment" by James Schmidt
• "Genocide and the Limits of Enlightenment: Horkheimer and Adorno Revisited" by James Schmidt
• Adorno on the Ethical and the Ineffable by James Gordon Finlayson
• "From Phenomenology to Critical Theory: The Genesis of Adorno's Critical Theory from his Reading of Husserl" by Ernst Wolf

Offsite Links on Critical Theory

• Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Critical Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Critical theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Institute of Social Research Frankfurt/Main
  • The Institute of Social Research Frankfurt/Main - History
• Illuminations: The Critical Theory Web Site (current site)
  • Illuminations: The Critical Theory Web Site (old site)
• Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair -- Graduate School of Education, UCLA
  • Selected Articles and Papers of Douglas Kellner (Available Online) (HTML, non-Flash version)
    • Critical Theory and the Crisis of Social Theory by Douglas Kellner
    • Critical Theory Today: Revisiting the Classics by Douglas Kellner
    • Herbert Marcuse by Douglas Kellner
    • Contents, Introduction to Critical Theory and Society, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner & Douglas Kellner
  • Books (HTML, non-Flash version)
    • Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism [large PDF file of book] by Douglas Kellner
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
• Voice of the Shuttle: Marxist, Communist, Frankfurt School, & Later-Marxist Critique
• Critical Theory & the Frankfurt School (Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate)
  • The Pansophist Electric Bibliothek (Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate)
• The Frankfurt School and "Critical Theory" (Marxists Internet Archive)
• The Max Horkheimer Internet Archive (Marxists Internet Archive)
  • Theism and Atheism
  • Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist
• Introduction to the Frankfurt School
• Herbert Marcuse Official Homepage (the main source)
  • Herbert Marcuse July 19, 1898-July 29, 1979 by Theresa M. Mackey
• Herbert Marcuse Archive
• The Herbert Marcuse Internet Archive (Marxists Internet Archive)
• Internationale Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft e.V. (English version)
• Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
• Ernst Bloch Assoziation [in German]
• Internationale Georg-Lukacs-Gesellschaft e.V. [in German]
• Habermas Forum
• Habermas Commentary - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
• SparkNotes: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Jürgen Habermas)
• theory-frankfurt-school -- Discussion of Frankfurt School critical theory (listserv)
• habermas: as text, influence, adversary, exemplar yahoo discussion group (listserv)
• Marxism 101: Frankfurt School Critical Theory (YouTube, with links to related videos)

Offsite essays on Critical Theory

• "The Relevance of Reality" by Herbert Marcuse
• "Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant" by Herbert Marcuse
• The Foundation of Historical Materialism by Herbert Marcuse
• Marcuse Or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology by Andrew Feenberg
• Origin Myths in the Social Sciences: Fromm, the Frankfurt School and the Emergence of Critical Theory by Neil McLaughlin
• On the 100th anniversary of his birth: Erich Fromm's Marxist dimension by Kevin Anderson
• The Significance of the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory by Harry Cowen (2003)
• The Eclipse of Reason and the End of the Frankfurt School in America by James Schmidt
• A Fresh Look at Lukács: on Steven Vogel's Against Nature by Andrew Feenberg
• Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory by Andrew Feenberg (1981)
• “The Totalitarianism of Therapeutic Philosophy: Reading Wittgenstein Through Critical Theory” by Matthew Crippen

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