Dialettica negativa

So, this is great, but the translation is *horrific*. I'm not sure you can read this translation and have any idea what Adorno was getting at. Instead, try this free version: http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.... which works well enough as is. Adorno's basic insight isn't even that hard to grasp, Leggi tutto

Yes!

brilliant ignorance

This was definitely the hardest book I have ever read, even though I was lucky enough to have a professor give us commentary on the reading every week, I probably only a grasped a small fraction of the content. Proficiency in German Idealism is required! For those of you who haven't read Heidegger,

Really, REALLY bizarre implicit object-normative ontology underlying negative dialectics, especially for someone as post-ontology as Adorno ... this shit slaps though, the command of yielding to the qualitative aspects of the object and the mimetic elective element entailed rather than mere concept

Still waiting on this retranslation... I hope all is well with Bob. If you are even mildly interested in this work, read it and read it again. Obviously this is Adorno's most programmatic philosophical statement, a working-through of Kant and Hegel with Marx as analyst and Heidegger as antagonist (c Leggi tutto

Please see my review for “The End of Progress,” by Amy Allen.

Not only is this the true culmination of Adorno’s thought, but it is also the work that shows--despite many of his flaws--that he was nothing short of a philosophical genius. I guess we should commend his music teacher for telling him not to pursue his dream of music haha. Nevertheless, Adorno’s cal Leggi tutto

Not for the content, but for the translation of the content. This translation is notoriously bad. It is not a literal translation from the German as is often said, but literally skips explicit references and does not note implicit references to Kant and Hegel nor does the translator use the standard Leggi tutto