Contents
Introduction: Origin Is the Goal
The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg
Critique of the Organic: Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic
Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music
Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and “The Essay as Form”
What Is Mechanical Reproduction?
Popular Music and “The Aging of the New Music”
Apple Criticizes Tree of Knowledge: A Review of One Sentence
Right Listening and a New Type of Human Being
Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Recovery of the Public World
Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno
Introduction to T.W. Adorno’s “The Idea of Natural-History”
The Idea of Natural-History Theodor W. Adorno