Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged LifeA 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. |
Contents
Dedication | 15 |
1944 | 21 |
They the people | 28 |
Le bourgeois revenant | 34 |
Do not knock | 40 |
To them shall no thoughts be turned | 46 |
Pro doma nostra | 50 |
JohnnyHeadinAir | 56 |
Deviation | 113 |
Keeping ones distance 26ܐ | 126 |
Picturebook without pictures 240 | 140 |
Gold assay | 152 |
Expiry | 165 |
Coming clean | 178 |
The bad comrade | 192 |
Wolf as grandmother | 203 |
Invitation to the dance | 62 |
Freedom of thought | 68 |
De gustibus est disputandum | 75 |
PART | 83 |
The Robbers | 89 |
set eyes on him | 95 |
Briefer expositions | 98 |
Juvenals error | 209 |
Who is who | 215 |
By this does German song abide | 221 |
Toy shop | 227 |
Dont exaggerate | 233 |
not to be misused | 244 |
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