Адорно Т. Избранное: социология музыки.

The book publishes the works of one of the founders of the sociology of music, Theodor W. Adorno (1902-1969), a prominent German philosopher and sociologist who spent many years in exile in America (`Introduction to the Sociology of Music. Twelve Theoretical Lectures`, `Anton von Webern`, `Musical Moments`). An outstanding music critic, sensitively listening to the formation of modern music, the music of the 20th century, who said a weighty and new word about the ways of its development, its insights and justification in the face of a tragic era, Adorno also foresees the dangers inherent in its depths, in its search for a way out. the limits of what is possible. Theodor Adorno's advice was used by Thomas Mann, creating the `book of pain`, the tragic novel `Doctor Faustus`. The volume also includes four articles by Alexander Viktorovich Mikhailov (1938-1995), the first Russian researcher of Adorno's work, a researcher of the deep and subtle, who considered Adorno a `music critic of extraordinary, grandiose proportions`