Articles/books on Adorno and (empirical) sociology

Claus Hansen clausdh at tdcspace.dk
Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:14:55 +0200


Dear list,

I was wondering if any of you knew any articles dealing with Adorno's 
sociological works and especially his visions on how to conduct empirical 
sociology. I would also be glad if anyone knew if anyone had tried to 
elaborate a bit on his 'epistemology' and how it could be utilised for 
sociology. So far I have found the following:

Stefan Müller-Doohm has published a book called - Die Soziologie Theodor W. 
Adorno's (1996, Campus Verlag) that sketches both some substantial issues 
in Adorno's 'sociological theory' and some answers as to how one should 
'conduct' Adornian inspired empirical sociology. He has also published a 
few articles dealing with the same issue. Then there is the part of the 
'Adorno-Konferenz 1983' (1983, Suhrkamp)  that deals on his methodology - 
all in all three articles by Wolfgang Bonss, Jürgen Risert and Ulrich 
Oevermann. There is also a single English article by Ryan Drake called 
'Objectivity and Insecurity. Adorno and Empirical Social Research' 
(Philosophy Today, Summer 2000). There are of course also a chapter in 
Rose's, Melancholy Science and Buck-Morss', The Origin of Negative Dialectics.

Does anyone know of any other articles in English, German or any 
Scandinavian language?

Thank you,

Claus

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"Hos mange mennesker er det allerede en uforskammethed, når de siger 'jeg'" 
(T.W. Adorno)