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
• Adorno on Wittgenstein & the Dialectical Essence of Philosophy
• 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 Paul Valéry & Cartesian Rationalism & Irrationalism in French Philosophy
• Adorno on Metaphysical Experience, Mysticism & Tradition
• Adorno on Workers vs. Intellectuals & the Meeting of Extremes
• Freedom as They Know It
• Depreciation: Adorno on Theory, Reification, Paranoia, Dialectics
• T.W. Adorno on Theory, Practice, & Moral Philosophy
• Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” by Theodor W. Adorno
  • Lecture 7 (11 June 1959): Knowledge as Tautology
  • Lecture 16 (14 July 1959): Society · ‘Block’
  • 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
• Introduction to Sociology
  • Lecture 4 (2 May 1968)
  • Lecture 16 (9 July 1968)
• Adorno to Bloch on the Blockage of Utopia
• 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
  • Section on the culture industry
• 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
• Max Horkheimer on the Duality of Scientism and Spiritualism in Bourgeois Society
• 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: Descartes) by Herbert Marcuse
• The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Phenomenology) by Herbert Marcuse
• Herbert Marcuse on Descartes, Kant, Hegel: Soul, Mind-Body Duality, & Affirmative Culture
• 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
• "Socialist Humanism?" by Herbert Marcuse
• "The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity: A Reconsideration" by Herbert Marcuse
• “Herbert Marcuse's Criticism of ‘Linguistic Philosophy’” by Colin Lyas
• "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]
• “Eduard Batalov and the Philosophy of Revolt: The New Left through Soviet Eyes” by Ileana Rodríguez
• The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology
  • Title pages, contents, index of sources
  • Theodor W. Adorno: Introduction
  • Theodor W. Adorno: Sociology and Empirical Research
  • Karl R. Popper: The Logic of the Social Sciences
  • Theodor W. Adorno: On the Logic of the Social Sciences
  • Jürgen Habermas: The Analytical Theory of Science and Dialectics
  • Hans Albert: The Myth of Total Reason
  • Jürgen Habermas: A Positivistically Bisected Rationalism
• The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology: Notes, Questions & Comments by R. Dumain
  • I: Adorno's Introduction
• Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium edited by Erich Fromm
• 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
• Commentary on Matthew Piscioneri, Habermas: The Myth of Reason by R.Dumain
• The Aporias of Marxism / Archaism and Modernity by Enzo Traverso
• 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
• The Question of Educational Work by Georg Lukács
• “The History of Hegel’s Youth: Review of Wilhelm Dilthey’s collected writings, Vol. IV” by Georg Lukács
• “On The Fiftieth Anniversary of Feuerbach’s Death” by Georg Lukács
• “The Two Epochs of Bourgeois Materialism: On Moleschott’s Centenary” by Georg Lukács
• Georg Lukács on Relativism, Feuerbach, Nietzsche & Spengler
• The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Excerpts by Georg Lukács
• Die ungarische Dramenliteratur / Georg Lukács
• On Hungarian Dramatic Literature by Georg Lukács, translated by Charles Senger
• "Existentialism" by Georg Lukács
• Georg Lukacs on Nazism & Irrationalism: The Unity of Cynicism & Credulity
• Lukács on Wittgenstein
• "Lukács' and Husserl's Critiques of Science" by Mihály Vajda
• Arta partikulareco kaj Esperanto [pri teorio de Georg Lukàcs] de R. P. Nogueira (in Esperanto)
• Kontraŭrevoluciaj fortoj dum la hungara proletara diktaturo de György Lukács (in Esperanto)
• Intellectual and Manual Labor by Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Contents; Extracts
• Historical Materialist Theory of Knowledge by Alfred Sohn-Rethel
• Book Review, Rudolf Wolfgang Müller, Geld und Geist by Pasi Falk
• Geoffrey Clark reviews Heads or Tails: The Poetics of Money by Jochen Hörisch
• Walter Benjamin on Monadology
• “Hochherrschaftlich Möblierte Zehnzimmerwohnung” / “Manorially Furnished Ten-Room Apartment”
  by Walter Benjamin
• Walter Benjamin and Ars Combinatoria by Ralph Dumain
• “Unpacking my Library”: Walter Benjamin’s Magic Encyclopedia
• 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
• Sebastiano Timpanaro on Giacomo Leopardi & Materialist Pessimism
• “Towards a Socio‑Historical Interpretation of the Scientific Revolution” by Paul Piccone
• Aesthetic Abstraction, Philosophical Foreplay (Descartes) by W. F. Haug
• Fascism as Pseudo-Socialism by W. F. Haug
• “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
• Georg Lukács’ The Destruction of Reason: Selected Bibliography
• Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: A Guide
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography
• Neo-Kantianism, Its History, Influence, and Relation to Socialism: Selected Secondary 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
• Futurology, Science Fiction, Utopia, and Alienation in the Work of Imre Madách, György Lukács, and Other Hungarian Writers: Select Bibliography 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?
• 680 Adorno documents in German or English
• 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)
• Imaginative Excesses (unpublished piece intended for Minima Moralia)
• Education After Auschwitz by Theodor Adorno
• 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"
• Toward a Reappraisal of Heine
• Discussion of a Paper by Ludwig Marcuse on the Relationship of Need and Culture in Nietzsche (July 14, 1942) / Theodor Adorno, Günter Anders, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Ludwig Marcuse, and Friedrich Pollock
• Adorno on Wittgenstein's Indescribable Vulgarity
• Negative Dialectics (Models - Part 3): Meditations on Metaphysics, by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond (see also above)
• 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
• Theodor adorno .Pdf Ebook Download
• Reading Adorno by Evelyn Wilcock
• Adorno Presentation Quotations
• Adorno epigraphs
• 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
• That's Adorno in MySpace.com
• Theodor Adorno - Theory.org.uk
  • Theodor Adorno - Theory.org.uk trading cards
• T.W. Adorno: A Bibliography of Work in English

Offsite Essays

• Dual Layered Time: Reflections on T. W. Adorno in the 1950s by Jürgen Habermas
• "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
• Table of Contents and Introduction to Theodor Adorno by James Schmidt
• Odysseus and the Siren Call of Reason: The Frankfurt School Critique of Enlightenment by Curtis Bowman
• "Theodor Adorno and the Culture Industry" by Gordon Welty (March 30, 1984)
• 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
• Three Dialectical Relationships and the Necessity of Critique in Theodore Adorno's Works by Gregory B. Sadler
• Adorno in America: German Exiles and the American Experience by Keith D. Alexander
• Adornoism, essays by Ben Watson
• The Veil of Piacular Subjectivity: Buchananism and the New World Order by Mark P. Worrell (1999)
• "Remembering Adorno" by John Abromeit
• Notes on Adorno in 1968-69 by Chris Cutrone (Platypus, 26 May 2009)
• Review article: Alastair Morgan, Adorno’s Concept of Life by Mark Tomlinson (2008)

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
• 147 Authors: Social Theory: Marxist and Critical Theorists: Texts (Alexander Street Press)
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
• Voice of the Shuttle: Marxist, Communist, Frankfurt School, & Later-Marxist Critique
• Critical Theorists: Conceptualizing Actualization, Actualizing Conceptions
• 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
• International Herbert Marcuse Society
• The Herbert Marcuse Internet Archive (Marxists Internet Archive)
• Bequest Herbert Marcuse, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Internationale Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft e.V. (English version)
• The Franz Neumann Project: Beyond the Behemoth
  "Toward a Critical Psychopathology of Fascism"
• Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
• Ernst Bloch Assoziation [in German]
• Internationale Georg-Lukacs-Gesellschaft e.V. [in German]
• Bibliographie [in German; primary, secondary, and the Budapest School] - HTML
• Bibliographie [in German] - PDF
• Georg (György) Lukács (1885-1971)
• Habermas Forum
• Habermas Commentary - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
• SparkNotes: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Jürgen Habermas)
• William Leiss (various relevant works, some see under 'essays', below)
  • The Domination of Nature
  • Hera, or Empathy: A Work of Utopian Fiction
  • The HeraSaga
• Chicago Political Workshop (with several texts on critical theory)
• Chris Cutrone: essays
• Critical Theory of Religion
• Critical Theory - Bibliography | PhilPapers
• 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 & Books 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
• Negations by Herbert Marcuse
• Heideggerian Marxism by Herbert Marcuse
• Towards a Critical Theory of Society by Herbert Marcuse
• One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
• An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse
• The Essential Marcuse - Introduction - Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse by Andrew Feenberg (2007)
• Critique of Marcuse and 'One Dimensional Man In Class Society' by Paul Mattick
• Marcuse Or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology by Andrew Feenberg
• Marcuse’s Legacies by Angela Y. Davis
• Marcuse In America — Exile as Educator: Deprovincializing One-Dimensional Culture in the U.S.A. by Charles Reitz
• Left Heideggerianism or Phenomenological Marxism? Reconsidering Herbert Marcuse's Critical Theory of Technology by John Abromeit (2010)
• 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 New Failure of Nerve,” the Eclipse of Reason, and the Critique of Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1940-1947 by James Schmidt
• 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
• Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit? by William Leiss (2007)
• The Dual Role of Science in Modern Society by William Leiss (2005)
• Critical Theory and Its Future by William Leiss (1974)
• Exerpt from: Hera, or Empathy by William Leiss
• William Leiss, Hera, and the Fate of Science by Hans Kellner
• Compliance Fiction: Adorno and Horkheimer's 'Culture Industry' Thesis in a Multimedia Age by Sam Caslin (2007)
• Young Horkheimer: Critical Theory Before the Dialectic of Enlightenment, And After It by Matthew Sharpe (2007)
• Frankfurt School, 1938: Max Horkheimer on Montaigne by Bruce Miller, Old Hickory's Weblog, 29 January 2011
• "Upgrading" Market Legitimation: Revisiting Habermas's 'Technology as Ideology' in Neoliberal Times by Eran Fisher (2007)
• Wrong Turn: Notes towards a Critique of Habermasian Liberalism by Geoff Boucher (2007)
• Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights, and Solidarity by Axel Honneth (1995)
• The Other Frankfurt School by Mark P. Worrell (2006)
• The Disintegration of Fordism and the Transformation of Black Anti-Semitism in America, 1945-2005 by Mark P. Worrell (2008)