Notes to Literature

Notes to Literature is nonfiction two volume work by social and cultural theorist Theodor W. Adorno. The two volumes are a collection of short essays on literary subjects such as Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel. The English translation of these volumes was published in 1991 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2) by Columbia University Press.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The volumes were edited by Rolf Tiedemann and Paul Kottman and translated from the original German into English by Shierry Weber Nicholson.[7]

Synopsis

According Paul Kottman, who wrote the introductury chapter, Adorno’s main ideas are presented in this collection. He argues that these essays are actually some of Adorno’s most important works, not just side projects. Adorno is famous for long, difficult books, but Kottman says his main ideas are easiest to see in these shorter essays. By putting all these essays into two volumes, Kottman shows that Adorno had a consistent plan for how he looked at books and writing. Also, the main goal of this collection serves as a central place for Adorno’s philosophy. Kottman says Adorno wrote these works to underscore the human experience and criticize modern life for turning human feelings into nothing more than numbers or data points.[8]

About the book

This work is organized into Volume I and II, with four "Parts," and thirty-five chapters. The work also has a Notes section and an Index. Altogether this collection of essays in about 519 pages.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Brown, Lee B. (1994). "Reviewed work: Notes to Literature, Volume Two, Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann, Shierry Weber Nicholsen". Journal of Aesthetic Education. 28 (1): 113–115. doi:10.2307/3333168. JSTOR 3333168.
  2. ^ Goehr, Lydia (1995). "Reviewed work: Notes to Literature, Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann, Shierry Weber Nicholsen". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 53 (3): 334–336. doi:10.2307/431367. JSTOR 431367.
  3. ^ Brown, Lee B. (1993). "Reviewed work: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. The Redemption of Illusion, Lambert Zuidervaart; Notes to Literature, Volume One, Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann, Shierry Weber Nicholsen". Journal of Aesthetic Education. 27 (2): 117–121. doi:10.2307/3333419. JSTOR 3333419.
  4. ^ Roberts, David (1994). "Reviews : Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory (Cornell University Press, 1991); Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature: Volume One, ed. Rolf Tiedermann, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Columbia University Press, 1991)". Thesis Eleven. 38: 187–190. doi:10.1177/072551369403800117.
  5. ^ Murphy, Jay. "Notes to Literature." Sulfur.35 (1994): 234,239,251. March 4, 2026.ProQuest 880059963
  6. ^ Cook, Jon. "The Philosophical Essay." Philosophy & Rhetoric, vol. 55 no. 3, 2022, p. 286-302. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/868392
  7. ^ "Notes to Literature webpage". Columbia University Press. 1992. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
  8. ^ Kottman, Paul; Adorno, Theodor W.; Nicholsen, Shierry Weber (2019). "Introduction". Notes to Literature. Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/ador17964. ISBN 978-0-231-55029-1. JSTOR 10.7312/ador17964.
  9. ^ Adorno, Theodor W.. "CONTENTS". Notes to Literature, New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2019, pp. vii-x.

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