by Theodor W. Adorno · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474325669
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This book, 'Introduction to Sociology' by Theodor W. Adorno, is a compilation of the fifteen lessons taught by the author at the University of Frankfurt in 1968. These lessons offer a penetrating and critical view of society, exploring the tensions between real politics and sociological theory. Adorno addresses the questions of new generations, defending the importance of theory to understand and transform society. The book invites reflection on the contradiction between what society is and what it aspires to be, highlighting the potential for change inherent in this tension.
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.
