by Theodor W. Adorno · ISBN 9781844673445
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In Search of Wagner is a critical analysis of the work and legacy of Richard Wagner by Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno examines the contradictions in Wagner's music and its cultural influence, offering a deep perspective on the relationship between art, society, and ideology.
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.
