Adorno's writing is notoriously difficult. This Routledge Critical Thinkers guide gives the reader the tools required to interpret Adorno's major works, whilst also introducing his interpretation of classical German philosophy and his relationship to his most significant contemporaries.

Ross Wilson is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the faculty of English, Cambridge University. His research interests include the history and theory of literary criticism, philosophical aesthetics, British Romantic poetry and poetics, and eighteenth-century and Romantic theories of language.

Why Adorno?: Key Ideas 1. Dialectic of Enlightenment 2. Fun 3. Life Does Not Live 4. Authentic Art 5. Truth 6. Redemption 7. Philosophy, Still. After Adorno. Further Reading. Index