Adorno

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to discursive knowledge: to say what cannot be said, to make the non-
conceptual manifest. How this could be explained through the medium
of philosophical concepts still awaited clarification. These two great plans

• they would turn into books – were described by Adorno as ‘my real
  concerns’. As late as the end of the 1960s he still had the feeling that
  these real concerns still lay in the future; everything he had written up
  to then was nothing but preliminary studies that would, he hoped, lead
  to something greater.