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by Theodor W. Adorno (Author)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Virtue of the Fragment., 14 Feb 2008
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Upon opening this wonderful book one can instantly recognise the pressing influence of that obscure master of the fragment: Walter Benjamin. Laid out in a manner not altogether dissimilar to Benjamin's "One-Way Street" it is not hard to discern a homage of sorts. But this is not Benjamin, nor does it try to be; for while Benjamin's work celebrates the lukewarm intellectual currents set free through reflection on the joys of misery, echoing those lines of that other great melancholiac, Robert Burton:

"All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy."

Adorno's approach is altogether quite different. "Reflections on a Damaged Life" reads the subtitle and none could be more accurate; for while Benjamin is tepid and lugubrious, Adorno is ice-cold and tumultuous. His prose, like the shattered life he describes, is disjointed, broken, crooked, schismatic and yet, for all of this, one can still perceive through the mutilated body of the text a glimmer of a utopian totality, a beacon of humanistic hope shining through the fog of fragmentary abstraction pathetically attempting to guide the coffin ship which humanity has boarded safely back to port. "No abstract concepts come closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace", he tells us in the closing of one of the sections.

No one escapes the wrath of Adorno's pen; Existentialists, psychoanalysts, nihilists, adherents of indefinite human progress, advertisers and cultural industrialists of all shapes and sizes, all of these and more are attacked in that refined dialectical manner peculiar to Adorno. If much of that which is here under attack seems to play like a broken record, repetitious, tedious and contrived, then perhaps we could describe Adorno's method as that of removing the scratched medium from its spool, shattering it to pieces and then attempting to glue these back together in order to get a fresh sound with which to pull the listener back from his immersion in aesthetic and intellectual limbo. Surprisingly it works!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fragmented genius that distances negativivity from nihilism., 26 Feb 1999
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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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