Jeff Rubard
2010-01-17 01:39:07 UTC
I Love This Book!
But "critics" aren't always all that they're cracked up to be...
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Theodor Adorno's *Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life* --
originally available at the Portland State Library from New Left Books
(an imprint of the failed Historians Working Group spun off from the
charred wreck of the DAMNED CPGB) and then from their cleverly named
Verso imprint ("left hand side", get it?) is a "cracking good read".
What does this mean, really. Me and You and Everyone We Know and *that
goddamn asshole* who will Never Give You A Break Until You are Dead
*love* this book, an anti-Nietzsche screed of *moralistic*
observations as regards the tenor of *rigorized* life "under
captivity" for the 2nd Frankfurt School in Britain before and US
during WWII: an endless, beautifully concise and without surcease,
elaboration on the theme "That ain't no good".
I like A.'s book with H. -- *Max* Horkheimer, his erstwhile fan of
*femmes du peuple* and later Schopenhauerian Supreme *nach* they got
back to the Bundesrepublik where they didna owe anybody anything and
lived "without condition" -- and were treated accordingly by Non Fans
of Adorno Syntax. *Friedrich Pollock is your state capitalism dealer*.
[Of which less anon in a *must needs be* for-profit economy. --
Anyhow, I like *Dialectic of Enlightenment* less and get around to
remembering I have read it, in English and in *by and by* increasingly
fluent command of the original German as per Sam Cannon -- not often
*over the fifteen years or so I have been aware of its existence from
Presses th. Available* such as Continuum.
Of Benjamin: the *ne plus ultra* of Anti-Semitic Creep -- who only
wanted to trick you into going to movies and getting "locked into a
groove" -- The Arcades Project entire *widely* available from HUP, and
the *betta* Verso translations of the shorter *released* works
latterly available from Harvard University Press. As are other things;
including, among them, *The Engaged Intellect*. Deal.
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J.
But "critics" aren't always all that they're cracked up to be...
----------
Theodor Adorno's *Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life* --
originally available at the Portland State Library from New Left Books
(an imprint of the failed Historians Working Group spun off from the
charred wreck of the DAMNED CPGB) and then from their cleverly named
Verso imprint ("left hand side", get it?) is a "cracking good read".
What does this mean, really. Me and You and Everyone We Know and *that
goddamn asshole* who will Never Give You A Break Until You are Dead
*love* this book, an anti-Nietzsche screed of *moralistic*
observations as regards the tenor of *rigorized* life "under
captivity" for the 2nd Frankfurt School in Britain before and US
during WWII: an endless, beautifully concise and without surcease,
elaboration on the theme "That ain't no good".
I like A.'s book with H. -- *Max* Horkheimer, his erstwhile fan of
*femmes du peuple* and later Schopenhauerian Supreme *nach* they got
back to the Bundesrepublik where they didna owe anybody anything and
lived "without condition" -- and were treated accordingly by Non Fans
of Adorno Syntax. *Friedrich Pollock is your state capitalism dealer*.
[Of which less anon in a *must needs be* for-profit economy. --
Anyhow, I like *Dialectic of Enlightenment* less and get around to
remembering I have read it, in English and in *by and by* increasingly
fluent command of the original German as per Sam Cannon -- not often
*over the fifteen years or so I have been aware of its existence from
Presses th. Available* such as Continuum.
Of Benjamin: the *ne plus ultra* of Anti-Semitic Creep -- who only
wanted to trick you into going to movies and getting "locked into a
groove" -- The Arcades Project entire *widely* available from HUP, and
the *betta* Verso translations of the shorter *released* works
latterly available from Harvard University Press. As are other things;
including, among them, *The Engaged Intellect*. Deal.
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J.