Theodor W. Adorno bibliography

The following is a list of the major work by Theodor W. Adorno, a 20th-century German philosopher, sociologist and critical theorist associated closely with the Frankfurt School. This list also includes information regarding English translation.

Collected work

Adorno's Gesammelte Schriften [GS] are published by Suhrkamp Verlag. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann, with Gretel Adorno, Susan Buck-Morss and Klaus Schultz, the twenty volume edition of Adorno's writings were published from 1970 to 1986. Additionally, his Nachgelassene Schriften [NaS], edited by the Theodor W. Adorno Archive, includes his lecture courses, as well as incomplete works.

Writings

Year Original German English Translation
1933 Kierkegaard: Konstruktion des Ästhetischen, GS 2. Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, trans. by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
1944/1947 with Max Horkheimer, Dialektik der Aufklärung: Philosophische Fragmente, GS 3 with Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002)
1947 with Hans Eisler, Komposition für den Film with Hans Eisler, Composing for the Films (New York: Continuum, 2005)
1949 Philosophie der neuen Musik, GS 12 Philosophy of New Music, trans. by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
1950 with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950)
1951 Minima Moralia. Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben, GS 4 Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, trans. by Edmund Jephcott (London: NLRB, 1974)
1952 Versuch über Wagner, GS 13 In Search of Wagner, trans. R. Livingstone, London: NLB, 1981
1955 Prismen. Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft, GS 10.1 Prisms, trans. S. Weber and S. Weber (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981)
1956 Zur Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie. Studien über Husserl und die phänomenologischen Antinomien, GS 5 Against Epistemology: A Metacritique; Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies, trans. W. Domingo (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982)
1956 Dissonanzen. Musik in der verwalteten Welt
1958 Noten zur Literatur I GS 11 Notes to Literature I, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991)
1959 Klangfiguren. Musikalische Schriften I, GS 16 Sound Figures, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999)
1960 Mahler. Eine musikalische Physiognomie, GS 13 Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993)
1961 Noten zur Literatur II GS 11 Notes to Literature II, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992)
1963 Drei Studien zu Hegel GS 5 Hegel: Three Studies, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993)
1963 Eingriffe. Neun kritische Modelle, GS 10.2 Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, trans. H. W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)
1963 Quasi una fantasia. Musikalische Schriften II, GS 16 Quasi una Fantasia, trans. Rodney Livingstone (London: Verso, 1992)
1964 Jargon der Eigentlichkeit. Zur deutschen Ideologie, GS 6 The Jargon of Authenticity, trans. K. Tarnowski and F. Will (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973)
1964 Moments musicaux. Neu gedruckte Aufsätze 1928–1962, GS 17 In Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962, trans. Wieland Hoban (New York: Seagull Books, 2009)
1966 Negative Dialektik, GS 6 Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Seabury Press, 1973)
1968 Berg. Der Meister des kleinsten Übergangs, GS 13 Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link, trans. J. Brand and C. Hailey (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
1969 Stichworte. Kritische Modelle 2, GS 10.2 Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, trans. H. W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)

Radio lectures

Posthumously published writings

Year Original German English Translation
1970 Ästhetische Theorie, GS 7 Aesthetic Theory, trans. R. Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997)
1993 Beethoven. Philosophie der Musik. Fragmente und Texte. Hrsg. von Rolf Tiedemann, NaS 1:2 Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music; Fragments and Texts, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. E. Jephcott (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998)
2006 Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory, hrsg von Robert Hullot-Kentor Current of Music, trans. Robert-Hullot Kentor (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2009)

Correspondence

Original German English Translation
Briefe an die Eltern 1939-1951, ed. Christoph Godde, Henri Lonitz Letters to His Parents 1939-1951 (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2006)

References

  1. Michael Crone (ed.): Vertreter der Frankfurter Schule in den Hörfunkprogrammen 1950–1992. Frankfurt: Hessischer Rundfunk, 1992, p. 32.
  2. Michael Crone (ed.): Vertreter der Frankfurter Schule in den Hörfunkprogrammen 1950–1992. Frankfurt: Hessischer Rundfunk, 1992, p. 70.