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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life Paperback – March 31, 2020
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A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVerso
- Publication dateMarch 31, 2020
- Dimensions5.05 x 0.65 x 7.85 inches
- ISBN-101788738535
- ISBN-13978-1788738538
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“The most peculiarly representative of Adorno’s work.”—Cambridge Review
“The best thoughts of a noble and invigorating mind.”—The Observer [UK]
“A staggering variety of topics is covered, moving in each section from the most intimate personal experiences to the most general theoretical problems.”—Radical Philosophy
“A primary intellectual document of this age.”—Sunday Times [London]
“A classic of twentieth-century thought ... whose translation is the best by far of any work of critical theory.”—Times Literary Supplement
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- Publisher : Verso (March 31, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1788738535
- ISBN-13 : 978-1788738538
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.05 x 0.65 x 7.85 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #50,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #14 in Philosophy Criticism (Books)
- #45 in Modern Western Philosophy
- #67 in Literary Criticism & Theory
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Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was the leading figure of the Frankfurt school of critical theory. He authored more than twenty volumes, including "Negative Dialectics" (1982), "Kierkegaard" (Minnesota, 1989), "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1975) with Max Horkheimer, and "Aesthetic Theory" (Minnesota, 1997).
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But, it was worth the time and the increased folds in my brow. I came into contact with one of the world's
great minds and critical thinkers. His words expanded both my world view and my inner view.
It's best read in small, incremental doses. That's the way it is written. It's not pleasure reading. It's
like reading for a college exam on a multitude of esoteric subjects. But, it's time well-spent.
This collection of brief meditations on life and culture under late capitalism is maddening, provocative, illuminating, opaque, invigorating, and dour-- and often all of these on the same page.
Adorno is a writer capable of keen insights and exquisite turns of phrase, and the book contains a half dozen aphorisms that will stay with me. But reading Adorno fruitfully requires a lot of prereading: references to Hegel, Marx, Freud, Nietzche, Goethe and lesser figures of German philosophy and literature are tossed around with little hand-holding. In the end, his arcane cultural references and dour, despairing worldview cast doubts in my mind whether his books are worth the trouble.
His insights into the more subtle mechanisms of domination and comformity that pervade our society are important, but are rendered with greater clarity by writers such as Gramsci, Reich, P. Goodman, Debord, Chomsky, Marcuse, and Postman, writers who align themselves more closely with social struggles to resist these forms of oppression and thus have a more measured, hopeful view of the possibilities for reconstituting society along humane lines.
Ultimately, Adorno offers no way out of the morass, only criticism of those who seek it. His outlook of despair and non-involvement serves only to justify his elitist, impotent musings on esthetics and philosophy, and offers little instruction for resistance. Perhaps this is why his writings are so avidly championed in graduate programs in the humanities. His followers would do well to take heed of the warning Adorno himself ran afoul of:
"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest." (MM 6)