Two recent books on Adorno may be of interest to our readers.

First, Fabian Freyenhagen‘s Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly (Cambridge, 2013). Available on Amazon.

From a recent review by Espen Hammer in the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:

Freyenhagen’s book successfully challenges the widespread approach to Adorno as a non-doctrinal thinker. It is a splendid and extremely lucid attempt at reconstructing an Adornian practical philosophy.

UPDATE: Until August, Cambridge is offering a 20% discount on the book: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/academic_discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=FABIAN14

Here’s the table of contents to Freyenhagen’s book:

Introduction
1. The whole is untrue
2. No right living
3. Social determination and negative freedom
4. Adorno’s critique of moral philosophy
5. A new categorical imperative
6. An ethics of resistance
7. Justification, vindication, and explanation
8. Negativism defended
9. Adorno’s negative Aristotelianism
Appendix: the jolt – Adorno on spontaneous willing.

Second, is Brian O’Connor’s Adorno (Routledge, 2013). Also available on Amazon.

Also, from a review by Gordon Finlayson in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:

Introductions such as Brian O’Connor’s Adorno (the latest in The Routledge Philosophers series) are a genre in their own right with their proper demands. One task is to initiate non-expert readers into the world of Adorno, and to make it accessible to the non-specialist without oversimplifying. Another is to give readers an overview of Adorno’s entire work situating each aspect of it in relation to the others. O’Connor meets these demands deftly

Here are the contents of O’Connor’s book:

1. Adorno’s Life and Philosophical Motivations
2. Society
3. Experience
4. Metaphysics
5. Freedom and Morality
6. Aesthetics
7. Philosophical Legacy.

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