Autonomy and social criticism › Further Reading

- Theodor Adorno, *Aesthetic Theory* (trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor). The primary text. Start with the introduction and the chapter on "Art, Society, Aesthetics," and expect to reread. - Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, *Dialectic of Enlightenment*. The founding statement of the culture industry thesis. The chapter on the culture industry is the essential companion. - Theodor Adorno, *Negative Dialectics*. Adorno's philosophical method in its most systematic form. Difficult, but it explains why *Aesthetic Theory* is written the way it is. - J. M. Bernstein, *The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno*. A rigorous secondary treatment that situates Adorno within the German aesthetic tradition. - Simon Jarvis, *Adorno: A Critical Introduction*. A scholarly overview of Adorno’s thought, including his aesthetics.