Theodor W. Adorno broached key questions about the role of music in contemporary society and argued that it affected consciousness and was a means of social management and control. Asserting that music sociology can be greatly enriched by returning to Adorno's focus on music as a dynamic medium of social life, this book considers cognition, the emotions and music as a manageme...(展开全部)

Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno's successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno's central insights on the negative effects of capitalism a...(展开全部)

Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough English-language account of Adorno's sociological thinking. Matthias Benzer reads Adorno's sociology through six major themes: the problem of conceptualising capitalist society; empirical res...(展开全部)

编者简介 布莱恩•沃利斯，纽约国际摄影中心（ICP）总策划、展览部主任。曾任纽约当代艺术新美术馆策展人、《美国艺术》资深编辑。他为《艺术论坛》、《美国艺术》、《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约时报》等多家报刊撰稿，也在耶鲁大学威廉姆斯学院、纽约大学和纽约城市大学授课。 译者简介 宋晓霞，中央美术学院教授，艺术史博士。主持教育部“当代艺术实践与增强国家文化竞争力战略研究”、文化部“中国形象的海外生成：近20年中国当代艺术展海外调查”等项研究，完成中国美术家协会海外研修项目“从海外看中国形象的塑造”。曾在中央美术学院人文学院开设“西方视角与中国当代艺术研究”博硕专题课。

As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art--but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks, difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology, present the curator with novel cha...(展开全部)

As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art--but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks, difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology, present the curator with novel cha...(展开全部)

Theodor Adorno is widely acknowledged to be one of the twentieth centurya s most original thinkers. The extraordinary range of his work is matched by the distinctiveness of his central intellectual preoccupations. This new introduction offers a comprehensive and accessible account of Adornoa s work. Jarvis discusses the intellectual and institutional contexts for Adornoa s thou...(展开全部)

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals. It presents a critical exchange between two leading contemporary social theorists, Patrick Baert and Simon Susen, advancing debates at the cutting edge of scholarship on the changing role of intellectuals in the increasingly interconnected societies of the twenty-fir...(展开全部)