Combines into a single volume, two of Adorno's most important postwar works - "Interventions: Nine Critical Models" (1963) and "Catchwords: Critical Models II" (1969). This book reflects the intellectually provocative Adorno as he addresses such issues as the dangers of ideological conformity, and the fragility of democracy, educational reform.

Preface Reviewing Adorno: Public Opinion and Critique by Lydia Goehr Interventions: Nine Critical Models Introduction Why Still Philosophy Philosophy and Teachers Note on Human Science and Culture Those Twenties Prologue to Television Television as Ideology Sexual Taboos and Law Today The Meaning of Working Through the Past Opinion Delusion Society Catchwords: Critical Models 2 Introduction Notes on Philosophical Thinking Reason and Revelation Progress Gloss on Personality Free Time Taboos on the Teaching Vocation Education After Auschwitz On the Question: "What is German?" Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America Dialectical Epilegomena: On Subject and Object Marginalia to Theory and Praxis Critical Models 3 Critique Resignation Appendixes Appendix 1: Discussion of Professor Adorno's Lecture "The Meanings of Working through the Past" Appendix 2: Introduction to the Lecture "The Meaning of Working Through the Past" Publication Information Notes Index

[A] collection of essays that offers a view of Adorno in his role as... public intellectual... Adorno's essays are truly urgent. The Nation Critical Models... introduce[s] a more accessible Adorno to the public... In an age of cynicism and practicality, he is more essential than ever. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Critical Models presents Adorno at his most philosophically stunning-'Progress'and 'On Subject and Object'are among his finest essays-and at his topical best. Even an Adorno radio talk can be critically chilling. This volume is the ideal entry into the expanse of Adorno's thought. -- J. M. Bernstein, New School University Contrary to the caricature of Adorno as an aloof mandarin unwilling to descend into the public sphere, these essays, elegantly translated and abundantly annotated by Henry Pickford, reveal the range and power of his contributions to the fragile German democracy he helped build after returning from exile. Without sacrificing his critical rigor, Adorno shows that even the most negative of dialectics can address practical problems and provide suggestive answers. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley