- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Verso Books; New edition edition (1 Oct 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0860917045
- ISBN-13: 978-0860917045
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 907,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature. --Susan Sontag
The best thoughts of a noble and invigorating mind. --Observer
A primary intellectual document of this age. --Sunday Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
The best thoughts of a noble and invigorating mind. --Observer
A primary intellectual document of this age. --Sunday Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Sunday Times
‘A primary intellectual document of this age.’
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a neglected gem,
This review is from: Minima Moralia: Reflections on Damaged Life (Radical Thinkers): Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
Minima Moralia consists of loosely connected meditations and ponderings on society and culture. Adorno was clearly an incredibly perceptive mind, and these rueful meditations observe how the wider forces of capitalism creep into the minutiae of our lives. Adorno laments the brusque and utilitarian quality of door shutting, the demise of the French brothel, as well as making broader digs at targets like revolutionary communism. Minima Moralia, and this is probably the best compliment you can pay so called critical theory, is a provocative and quite depressing work, showcasing Adorno's seemingly endless disgust toward life in capitalist society. I'd say it ranks with the works of other great provocateurs like Nietzsche and Foucault, doing the Socratic job of making us uncomfortable about how we are living our lives.
Minima Moralia is also a nice companion volume to Adorno and Horkheimer's more widely read "Dialectic of Enlightenment". Adorno's thinking is more relaxed and concrete here, showing his talent for a telling story and a wry observation. You could, rather simplistically, read Minima Moralia as a catalogue of the sort of observations that led to the Dialectic's grand theses about Enlightnement and modern reason. For those like me who found the Dialectic infuriating, this work gives you some insight into what led to Adorno and Horkheimer's rather baffling claims.
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Fragmented genius that distances negativivity from nihilism.,
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This review is from: Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (Paperback)
Fragmented genius that distances negativity from nihilism. His innumerable interventions into a gaping spectrum of social praxis reveals another dialectic to the method of this astonishing mind: latent conservatism underpinning prosaic Marxism. Nevertheless, Adorno systematically pre-empts to division of the social-science academy; 'Tough Baby' anticipates the emergence of 'Queer theory'; 'How sickly seem all growing things' provides a valuable introduction to the complex dialectic of the Critical Realists; whilst the continual anti-nazi polemic vis-a-vis Spengler and Carl Schmitt should be compulsory reading for those 'Critical' Legal Scholars hell-bent on the rehabilitation of Schmitt, Heidegger et al.
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