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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 193 EAN: 9781844670512 ISBN: 1844670511 Label: Verso Manufacturer: Verso Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: January 11, 2006 Publisher: Verso Studio: Verso Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A classic.If read carefully, everything's in here, but it may be best enjoyed piecemeal, as a source of inspiration and a means of provoking thought. Not a primer on Adorno's work, but an enjoyable, relatively accessible way to dip your toes in. At the same time, it's one of the pinnacle works of twentieth-century theory. Rating: - Pure thoughtThough largely unknown outside of certain obscure academic circles, Theodore W. Adorno was, without a doubt, the foremost socio-political theorist of the 20th century. For truly intelligent, literate, questing minds (free of occultist nonsense) Adorno's MINIMA MORALIA is absolutely indispensible. A compendium of always eloquent, surprising, mournful, and deeply humane musings on modern capitalist society in all its terrible unfreedom, this book is among the most uncompromisingly radical ever written ... Read More Rating: - We're all damagedThis is essential reading for our times, and Adorno's insights can be applied to many different areas e.g. literature, sociology, politics, and philosophy. Highly recommended. Rating: - Firme VatosDis is puro...firme vato locs. Down for Adorno por vida..Smile now, Cry later.. Rating:  - a damp, dark mine of of thought, with a few sparkling gemsAdorno is a sort of Nabokov of the armchair left: elitist, haughty, immaculately cultured, cynical and despairing, and capable of penetrating aphorisms and sparkling metaphors. This collection of brief meditations on life and culture under late capitalism is maddening, provocative, illuminating, opaque, invigorating, and dour-- and often all of these on the same page. Adorno is a writer capable of keen insights and exquisite turns of phrase, and the book contains a half dozen ... Read More 
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