Utopian Optics: Theodor W. Adorno’s Prisms: Cultural Criticism and Society
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The English-reading world has recently been offered the alpha and omega of Adorno's systematic works. Not only do Dialectic of Enlightenment and Negative Dialectics present Adorno's original programmatic evocation and his final methodological summary respectively, but the Jargon of Authenticity and Philosophy of New Music footnote these with lengthy statements on two favorite leit-motifs: the polemic against Heidegger and the praise of Schoenberg. Yet, one suspects this is all too good to be true; it couldn't happen in America. Paradoxically, it seems, the very culture industry Adorno accused of fostering the uncritical attitude is now dispensing the systematic essence of the most advanced critical theory of society.
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