Prisms
Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel Weber (Translator), Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Translator)
"Essays on Veblen, Huxley, Benjamin, Bach, Proust, Schoenberg, Spengler, jazz, Kafka"--Jacket subtitle
Print Book, English, 1981, ©1967
1st MIT Press ed View all formats and editions
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1981, ©1967
Essays
272 pages ; 21 cm.
9780262010641, 9780262510257, 026201064X, 0262510251
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Introduction : translating the untranslatable / by Samuel M. Weber
Cultural criticism and society
The sociology of knowledge and its consciousness
Spengler after the decline
Veblen's attack on culture
Aldous Huxley and utopia
Perennial fashion : jazz
Bach defended against his devotees
Arnold Schoenberg, 1874-1951
Valéry Proust Museum
The George-Hofmannsthal correspondence, 1891-1906
A portrait of Walter Benjamin
Notes on Kafka
Translation of Prismen
Translated from the German