Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
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.
Hardback, 272 pages
ISBN: 9781844676613
November 2010
$24.95 / £14.99
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Part of the Radical Thinkers Classic Editions series
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A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.
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The most peculiarly representative of Adorno's work.
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The best thoughts of a noble and invigorating mind.
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A staggering variety of topics is covered, moving in each section from the most intimate personal experiences to the most general theoretical problems.
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A primary intellectual document of this age.
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A classic of twentieth-century thought...whose translation is the best by far of any work of critical theory.
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"Old School, New School, Frankfurt School"—Minima Moralia goes punk
A keen writer on music and an extraordinarily sharp theorist, Theodor Adorno once wrote "The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."
His own selection of essays and journalism on music, Quasi Una Fantasia, reverberates with his deep conviction in the human properties of music as a form capable of resisting barbarity. We're not sure, therefore, how he'd feel about Minima Moralia EP.
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