Product Description

A classic of twentieth century thought, this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52130 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
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. --The Observer

A primary intellectual document of this age. --The Sunday Times

Sunday Times
‘A primary intellectual document of this age.’

Susan Sontag
'A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.'

Customer Reviews

Fragmented genius that distances negativivity from nihilism.
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.