Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life - Rilegato

Adorno, Theodor W.

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ISBN 10: 1844676617 ISBN 13: 9781844676613

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2010

Riassunto

A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of lateCapitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophicalmasterpiece built from aphorismsand reflections, shifting in register frompersonal experience to the most generaltheoretical problems.

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Recensione:

A classic of twentieth century thought whose translation is by far the best yet done of any work of Critical Theory. --Times Literary Supplement

I bought Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia in June 1986 from Compendium in Camden, London (a Mecca, back then, for theory-hungry radicals) and read it, intermittently, throughout the summer in Brixton. Given the diversity of these 'Reflections From Damaged Life' compiled in the molten core of the 20th century it's not surprising that what I recall is less the specific content of the book than the experience of reading it, the current coursing through its pages. Dialectical thought 'an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. But since it must use these means, it is at every moment in danger of itself acquiring a coercive character' is taken to an extreme that is aesthetic (the first section is 'For Marcel Proust') as well as cerebral. Needless to say, I couldn't understand all of it; still can't, to be honest, but this passage means more to me now than it did 25 years ago: 'Slippers are designed to be slipped into without help from the hand. They are monuments to the hatred of bending down.' --Geoff Dyer, Guardian

L'autore:

Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner; Aesthetic Theory; Negative Dialectics; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844676617
• ISBN 13: 9781844676613
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 268