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A review by dylanberman
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Through Adorno’s endlessly perceptive, dense, and intelligent negativity towards the state of things, the reader finds dangers to resist, values, now denigrated or lost completely, to strive for.
“To gain such perspectives without velleity or violence, entirely from felt contact with its objects-this alone is the task of thought. It is the simplest of all things, because the situation calls imperatively for such knowledge, indeed because consummate negativity, once squarely faced, delineates the mirror image of its opposite” (pg 263).
“To gain such perspectives without velleity or violence, entirely from felt contact with its objects-this alone is the task of thought. It is the simplest of all things, because the situation calls imperatively for such knowledge, indeed because consummate negativity, once squarely faced, delineates the mirror image of its opposite” (pg 263).