things beyond resemblance COLUMBIATHEMESINPHILOSOPHY, SOCIALCRITICISM, ANDTHEARTS Collected Essays resemblance ROBERT HULLOT-KENTOR things beyond on THEODOR W. ADORNO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2006Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hullot-Kentor, Robert. Things beyond resemblance : collected essays on Theodor W. Adorno / Robert Hullot-Kentor. p. cm. — (Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-231-13658-7(alk. paper) 1. Adorno, Theodor W., 1903–1969. I. Title. b3199.a34h85 2006 193—dc22 2006017599 Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts Lydia Goehr and Gregg M. Horowitz, editors Advisory Board J. M. Bernstein Eileen Gillooly Noël Carroll Thomas S. Grey T. J. Clark Miriam Bratu Hansen Arthur C. Danto Robert Hullot-Kentor Martin Donougho Michael Kelly David Frisby Richard Leppert Boris Gasparov Janet Wolff Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts presents monographs, essay collec- tions, and short books on philosophy and aesthetic theory. It aims to publish books that show the ability of the arts to stimulate critical reflection on modern and contemporary social, political, and cultural life. Art is not now, if it ever was, a realm of human activity independent of the complex realities of social organization and change, political authority and antagonism, cultural domination and resistance. The possibilities of critical thought embedded in the arts are most fruitfully ex- pressed when addressed to readers across the various fields of social and humanistic inquiry. The idea of philosophy in the series’ title ought to be understood, therefore, to embrace forms of discus- sion that begin where mere academic expertise exhausts itself, where the rules of social, political, and cultural practice are both affirmed and challenged, and where new thinking takes place. The series does not privilege any particular art, nor does it ask for the arts to be mutually isolated. The series encourages writing from the many fields of thoughtful and critical inquiry. Pour Odile Contents Acknowledgments XI Introduction: Origin Is the Goal 1 Back to Adorno 23 Things Beyond Resemblance 45 The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg 67 Critique of the Organic: Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic 77 Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music 94 Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and “The Essay as Form” 125 What Is Mechanical Reproduction? 136 Adorno Without Quotation 154