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Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)

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There are many writers attempting to explain Adorno's thought, but none of them seems to have absorbed that thought as well as Hullot-Kentor. Simple evidence of this is the fact that Kentor is able to explain these ideas with a relative minimum of quotation of Adorno. Rather, Kentor succeeds spectacularly in situating Adorno's thought not only in the context of its own times but of our times--convincingly demonstrating, for instance, that most contemporary American intellectuals are going to have a difficult time even accepting the premise of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.

Kentor is a rare type of thinker and writer--one with an actual passionate attachment to the thinker he is in turn discussing. Kentor does not perform a "reading" of Adorno--rather, he provides insights that have clearly resulted from years of thinking about this philosopher.

This volume is especially valuable for those wishing to relate meaningfully to Adorno's thought and for those interested in a generally Marxist critique of culture.