Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays On Modern Music
by Adorno, Theodor, W. (Trans. by Livingstone, Rodney)
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About This Item
Verso, London, 1992 (First published as Quasi una fantasia by Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963). 24.0 x 16.0cms, 336pp, very good hardback, no dustwrapper Quasi una Fantasia contains Adorno's own selection from his essays and journalism over more than three decades. In the range of its topics and the clarity of its arguments it stands alone among Adorno's writings on music.
Synopsis
Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner ; Aesthetic Theory ; Negative Dialectics ; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto .
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- Title
- Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays On Modern Music
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- Adorno, Theodor, W. (Trans. by Livingstone, Rodney)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Verso, London, 1992 (First published as Quasi una fantasia by Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963)
- Keywords
- Music Philosophy Adorno Frankfurt School
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We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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