Critical Models Interventions and Catchwords

Between 1959 and his death ten years later, Adorno published fourteen paperback collections of his work, often combining revised and new essays-publications intended for an educated and politically and culturally influential audience. Two collections of those works combined in this one volume -Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969) -are passionate examples of Adorno's postwar commitment to unmasking the culture that engendered Nazism and its antihumanist nightmare. Included here are Adorno's practical recommendations for reform in primary and higher education, his explanation for the enduring therapeutic value of psychoanalysis, and his appeal to raise public awareness of "propaganda tricks" that exploit prejudice and chauvinism. The collection also includes new translations of
such classic pieces as "Why Still Philosophy," "Note on the Human Sciences and Culture," and "Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America," a memoir of his exile in the United States."
An ably translated and meticulously documented collection of essays that offers a view of Adorno in his role as . . . public intellectual. . . . Adorno´s essays are truly urgent."
? The Nation