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A review by arthuriana
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
2.0
go take a walk, teddy, old pal. the sun is shining today, and there will be very many beautiful days to come.
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sardonic one-liner review over and done with, i just have this to say: i've often heard it said that the history of leftism is a history of losing—which it very much factually isn't, considering the victories of past decades (working week, holidays, the rights for unions to even exist, etc, etc) and all that jazz—but jeez, no wonder people have that kind of perspective if this is a leading voice for the left.
the razor-sharp wit and the scathing critique and all that fancy erudition does not erase what this book fundamentally is: a rant, and a very rambling kind of ranting too. there's some helpful bits of theory here, perhaps, but i'm very hard-pressed to say if it's worth it.
—which, okay, it is undeniably worth it: adorno is a brilliant mind and a luminary and one would probably be better served if one reads him—but... i don't know! this book, though offering up some gems of insight, just wasn't for me.
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sardonic one-liner review over and done with, i just have this to say: i've often heard it said that the history of leftism is a history of losing—which it very much factually isn't, considering the victories of past decades (working week, holidays, the rights for unions to even exist, etc, etc) and all that jazz—but jeez, no wonder people have that kind of perspective if this is a leading voice for the left.
the razor-sharp wit and the scathing critique and all that fancy erudition does not erase what this book fundamentally is: a rant, and a very rambling kind of ranting too. there's some helpful bits of theory here, perhaps, but i'm very hard-pressed to say if it's worth it.
—which, okay, it is undeniably worth it: adorno is a brilliant mind and a luminary and one would probably be better served if one reads him—but... i don't know! this book, though offering up some gems of insight, just wasn't for me.