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krj's review against another edition
3.0
I can't finish Minima Moralia. I've been working on it since—February? March? something like that—only some seventy pages left now. It's odd—there will be a streak of aphorisms that I love, that are brilliant—but then I'll slog through half a dozen misreadings of Freud or rants about how pretty women are vain and stupid. I feel like I like Adorno (even in spite of his misogyny)—I feel like I would enjoy his company, and we could talk about Proust and our contempt for popular culture and the bourgeoisie. But even when I feel like Adorno is onto something brilliant, when one of the aphorisms in this book really hits me close to home, I feel like I've already read it before, and read it said better: really, Minima Moralia's best aphorisms are the ones in which Adorno just regurgitates, almost verbatim, Marx. I don't feel like there's anything new that I'm getting from Adorno—and while I sympathize frequently with his cultural malaise, I just can't bring myself to read those last seventy pages: time is limited, a precious commodity in our world of late capitalism, and I'd rather spend mine reading Marx. At least Marx offers a way out of capitalism, of the dictatorship of the bourgeois. I suppose that is Adorno's "new" contribution: he is Marx, resigned. The world is fucked, people: that's all Adorno has to offer.
eggstriker's review against another edition
3.0
Adorno tries here to answer a lot of questions from a philosophical and theoretical perspective. Some of them are very thoughtful and catching. But with some, especially in the middle of this literature, I can‘t really connect with them. But that‘s not Adorno‘s fault.
He was a intelligent theoretical thinker and shaped the APO in Germany like only a few others.
He was a intelligent theoretical thinker and shaped the APO in Germany like only a few others.
gabrielzanetti's review against another edition
5.0
I'm not going to say anything new or useful about a book far above my pay grade. I worked through this book over the course of 2 months with my trusted reading group and feel better for it.
kostopoulos2000's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
scottpnh10's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
till_sunfield's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Aus Fragment 72:
„[...] Pantoffel – ‚Schlappen‘, slippers – sind darauf berechnet, daß man ohne Hilfe der Hand mit den Füßen hineinschlüpft. Sie sind Denkmale des Hasses gegen das sich Bücken.“
Gänsehaut.
I liked: 20, 27, 36, 40, 41, 42, 45, 50, 66, 68, 72, 73, 79, 80, 90, 91, 97, 99, 105, 118, 120, 148 and 153.
„[...] Pantoffel – ‚Schlappen‘, slippers – sind darauf berechnet, daß man ohne Hilfe der Hand mit den Füßen hineinschlüpft. Sie sind Denkmale des Hasses gegen das sich Bücken.“
Gänsehaut.
I liked: 20, 27, 36, 40, 41, 42, 45, 50, 66, 68, 72, 73, 79, 80, 90, 91, 97, 99, 105, 118, 120, 148 and 153.
dylanberman's review against another edition
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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).