The Journal of Adorno Studies (JAS) explores the multifaceted work of T. W. Adorno and its contemporary intellectual, cultural, and political potential. This first issue introduces the community of colleagues and scholars that comprise the Journal’s editorial committee and board. In the programmatic section "Kaleidoscopics", we approach the breadth of Adorno’s work from many different angles.

Editors’ Introduction

Samir Gandesha, Johan Hartle, Antonia Hofstätter, Han-Gyeol Lie, Stefano Marino: Theodor W. Adorno: Between Critical Receptivity and Spontaneous Openness

Kaleidoscopics

Robert Hullot-Kentor: Parataxis in Primordia

Martin Shuster: Adorno, Critical Theory, and Ordinary Language Philosophy

Fabian Freyenhagen, Anastasios Gaitanidis, Polona Curk: The End of the Individual

Qianfan Zhao: Below the Level, or Adorno’s Posture of Thinking

Alastair Morgan: The Lure of Madness

Lydia Goehr: Durcharbeitung: Adorno after Freud

Sebastian Tränkle: No Refuge for the Homeseekers

Fumi Okiji: Thwarted Possibilities and Subjunctive Moods

Samir Gandesha: (Non-)Identity Politics

J.M. Bernstein: Adorno in the Anthropocene

Kathy Kiloh: “Total Disaster”: Primitivism and Progress

Andrew Bowie: Adorno Today

Camilla Flodin: Aesthetic Unity

Gertrud Koch: The Gesture of Release

Peter Uwe Hohendahl: Adorno’s Conception of Tradition Revisited

Stefano Marino: Truth, Aura, Eros

Iain Macdonald: Idiosyncrasy and Primary Experience

Henry W. Pickford: Over the Rainbow

 

Essays

Michael Schwarz: “I will leave that to you for further thought”: On Adorno’s Lectures

Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Jeremy J. Shapiro: Beautiful Passages (Schöne Stellen): Translators’ Introduction

Theodor W. Adorno: Beautiful Passages (Schöne Stellen)

 

Polemics and Encounters

Günther Sandner: Positivism–Polemics–Politics: On the Failed Dialogue Between Critical Theory and Logical Empiricism

 

Book Review

Emile Ike: Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy

 

Obituaries

Gerhard Schweppenhäuser: Hans Magnus Enzensberger: A Great Poet and Political Harlequin

Jeff Noonan: In Remembrance: Deborah Cook (1954-2020)