by Theodor W. Adorno · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449309311
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In 'About Music', Theodor W. Adorno explores the complex relationship between music, language, painting, and philosophy. This book, part of the 'Contemporary Thought' series, presents a compilation of writings where Adorno reflects on the philosophy of music, a subject that concerned him throughout his life. Through these texts, Adorno approaches music as a philosophical problem, analyzing its connection with the most radical and hermetic avant-garde, as represented by the music of Schönberg, Berg and Webern.
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.
