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Robert Hullot-Kentor
Academic Specialties & Research Interests
My involvements are broadly philosophical, literary, musical,
psychological and historical. The aim, I suppose, has been
to get a decent education. I'm still looking forward to that.
There is, however, a central problem that motivates my studies
and it is shaped this way: The sciences struggle to get to
truth by destroying illusions-what is commonly called getting
to the facts. Art, historically and by contrast, struggles
to get to truth by means of illusion: by presenting a story,
for instance. All of the questions of modern art--and this
is the puzzle that gets my attention--revolve around the problem
of how art can still be art when, because of historical developments,
art can no longer tolerate the illusion that it requires to
be art in the first place. This is the problem that set off
the revolution in the arts at the beginning of the twentieth
century and that continues to haunt what most artists try
to do, whether in literature, visual arts or music. My intellectual
history has been going on a bit too long to summarize it here,
but currently I'm working on two collaborative projects: one
considers what is new in the form of repression in the United
States under the Bush administration and another project is
on neo-liberal visions of utopia.
Bibliography of Works Published, in Press
and in Preparation
Books: Published, Forthcoming and in Preparation, and
Thesis and Dissertation
1. Editor and translator: Adorno, Negative Dialectics,
in preparation for University of Minnesota Press.
2. Author: Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays
on Theodor W. Adorno (New York: Columbia University Press,
2006).
3. Editor: Adorno, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio
Theory, with an Introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Frankfurt:
Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006). (This volume will be subsequently
published in England by Polity Press and then in the United
States by Stanford University Press. Forthcoming, 2007.)
4. Editor and translator, Adorno, Philosophy of New Music,
with an Introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minnesota: University
of Minnesota Press, 2006).
5. Author: Ice Flows (Koeln: Jablonka Gallerie, 2001).
6. Editor and translator: Adorno, Aesthetic Theory,
New Translation with an Introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
(Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1997/1998).
7. Editor and translator: T.W. Adorno, Kierkegaard: Construction
of the Aesthetic, (Minnesota: University of Minnesota
Press, 1989).
8. Dissertation (Comparative Literature): The Problem
of Natural History in the Philosophy of Th.. W. Adorno,
University of Massachusetts, 1985.
9. M.A. Thesis (Psychology): The Rise of the Psychological
Anti-Community in America 1790-1830, Goddard College,
1975.
10. Author: The Dragonfly Series (Marlboro: Sfumato
Press, 1969) (Poetry).
Essays, Reviews, Poetry and Translations, Published and
Forthcoming
1. Essay, "In Exactly What Sense the Culture Industry
No Longer Exists," in The Culture Industry Today,
edited by Fabio Durao (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
in preparation), pp.
2. Essay, "Em que sentido exatamente a industria cultural
nao mais existe," translated by Fabio Durao (forthcoming,
2006). (This is a translation of no. 1, above.)
3. Essay, "L'impossibilité de la musique,"
translated by Henri Vaugrand in X-Alta (forthcoming, 2006).
(This is a translation of no. 35, below.)
4. Essay, "Adorno without Quotation," in Expression,
Truth, Authenticity: On Adorno's Theory of Music and Musical
Performance, edited by Mário Vieira de Carvalho
(Lisbon: in preparation; also to appear in Portuguese). [See
number 15, below.]
5. Essay, "Unforgiving Art, Unforgiveable Nations,"
RES (Spring, 2007, forthcoming), pp. .
6. Essay, "Introduction to the Idea of Natural History,"
in James Schmidt, ed., Theodor Adorno in The International
Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
(Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing). First published in Telos,
1985 (see below, number 43) [forthcoming, July, 2007].
7. Review: Juergen Habermas, Truth and Justification
(Cambridge: MIT, 2005) in Contemporary Sociology (January,
2006).
8. Review: Fred Rush, The Cambridge Companion to the Frankfurt
School (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) in
Contemporary Sociology (March, 2006).
9. Essay: "Adorno ohne Anfuehrungszeichen," translated
by Elisabeth Lenk and Gesa Lolling in Philologie und Scham,
edited by Elisabeth Lenk and Gesa Lolling (Frankfurt: Pandoras
Buechse, 2006), pp. 39-52. [This is a longer version of the
English "Adorno without Quotation," see below number
14].
10. Essay: "Right Listening and a New Kind of Human
Being," ibid., pp. 53-66. [First published in number
16, below.]
11. Essay: "Second Salvage," in Cultural Critique
(Spring, 2005), pp. 134-169. [Short version of the essay forthcoming
in 2006 of the English edition of Current of Music.]
12. Essay: "Things Beyond Resemblance," in Philosophy
of New Music [see above, no. 4 under Books, forthcoming
2006].
13. Essay: Zweite Bergung translation of Second Salvage
by Juergen Schroeder for the German edition of Current
of Music [long version of no. 3 under Books, 2006].
14. Essay: "Second Salvage" in English edition
of Current of Music [see above, number. 3 under Books,
2006]
15. Poem: "Machado de Assis," in West Coast
Line (Fall, 2005), p. 77.
16. Essay: "Second Salvage," in Cultural Critique
(Spring, 2005), pp. 134-169. [Short version of the essay forthcoming
in the English edition of Current of Music.]
17. Essay: "Adorno without Quotation," in Res:
Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 45, Spring 2004, pp.
5-10.
18. Essay: "Back to Adorno," in T. W. Adorno,
Gerard Delanty ed. (London: Sage Publications, 2004). [First
published in Telos, 1989.]
19. Essay: "The Impossibility of Music," in T.
W. Adorno, Gerard Delanty, ed. (London: Sage Publications,
2004). [First published in Telos, 1991.]
20. Essay: "Right Listening and a New Type of Human
Being," in The Adorno Companion, edited by Thomas
Huhn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 181-198.
21. Translation: T. W. Adorno, "The Essay as Form,"
translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor and Frederic Will in The
Adorno Reader, Brian O'Conner, ed. (London: Blackwell,
2003), p. 91-111. [First published in New German Critique,
1985.]
22. Essay: "Right Listening and a New Type of Human
Being," in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no.
44, (Autumn 2003), pp. 191-198.
23. Essay: "Die Philosophie der Dissonanz: Adorno und
Schoenberg," translated by Michael Schwarz in Frankfurter
Adorno Blaetter VII , edited by Rolf Tiedemann (Frankfurt:
Edition Text/Kritik, 2001), pp. 46-54.
24. Essay: "The Impossibility of Music," Japanese
translation, in Critical Theory edited by Martin Jay,
(Tokyo: Kochi Shobo Press, 2001), pp. 155-184.
25. Essay: "What is Mechanical Reproduction?" There
are two versions of this essay. The first was published in
Anarcho-Modernism (Vancouver: Talon Books, 2001); the
second version is in Gumbrecht and Marinen (editors), Benjamin's
Artwork Essay (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).
26. Review of: Erik Krakauer, The Disposition of the Subject,
in Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society,
Spring 2000, pp. 171-172
27. Essay: "The House that Baden Built: Terra Infirma,"
(Victoria: Open Space, 1998).
28. Essay: "The Philosophy of Dissonance," in Semblance
of the Subject edited by Thomas Huhn and Lambert Zuidervart
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997).
29. Essay: "Beckett Up To Date." Telos,
92:192, 1993.
30. Essay: "Notes on the Dialectic of Enlightenment,"
in New German Critique, 57:101-108, 1993.
31. Essay: "Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno,"
Telos 89:167-176, 1993.
32. Editor and translator: Adorno and Horkheimer, "Odysseus
or Myth and Enlightenment," New German Critique,
56:109-142, 1992.
33. Article: "Telos, The Real Story," In
These Times, (July 16, 1991), p. 3.
34. Essay: "Theory of the Future," Telos
87:137-145, 1991.
35. Essay: "The Impossibility of Music: Adorno, Popular
and Other Music," Telos 87:97-117, 1991.
36. Essay: "Does Critical Theory have a Future?"
(in collaboration with the participants of the Elizabethtown
Telos Conference, February, 1990), Telos 82:111-130,
1990.
37. Essay: "From Uplift to Gadgetry: Barbiero, Eno and
New Age Music," Telos, 82:151-156, 1990.
38. Essay: "Back to Adorno," Telos, 81:5-29,
1989.
39. Essay: "Critique of the Organic," in T. W.
Adorno, Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic (Minnesota:
University of Minnesota, 1989), pp. x-xxiii.
40. Essay: "Popular Music and Adorno's 'The Aging of
the New Music,'" Telos 77:79-94, 1989.
41. Editor and translator (with Frederic Will): Adorno, "The
Aging of the New Music," Telos 77:95-116, 1989.
42. Editor and translator: Adorno, "Introduction to
Walter Benjamin" in Walter Benjamin, ed. Gary
Smith (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988), pp. 2-17.
43. Essay: "T.W. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Translation,"
Telos 65:143-147, 1986.
44. Essay: "Introduction to 'The Idea of Natural History,'"
Telos 57:111-124, 1985
45. Editor and translator: "The Idea of Natural-History,"
Telos 57:97-110, 1985.
46. Editor and translator (with Frederic Will): Adorno, "Essay
as Form," New German Critique 32:151-171, 1984.
47. Essay: "Title Essay," New German Critique
32:141-150, 1984.
48. Essay Review: The Political Unconscious by Frederic
Jameson, Telos 51:206-214, 1982.
49. Essay Review: Marxism and Literary Criticism by
Terry Eagleton, Telos 43:199-206, 1980.
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