About the Author

Peter Uwe Hohendahl is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His books include Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830–1870 and The Institution of Criticism. He is editor of A History of German Literary Criticism, 1730–1980 (Nebraska 1988).

Reviews

"A richly nuanced reading of some of the crucial ambiguities, multiplicities and internal developments in Adorno’s work."—Shierry Weber Nicholsen, translator of Adorno’s Prisms and Notes to Literature