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Part IV
- personality • Merits of social research: studies in the authoritarian- • Moral feelings in immoral times
- • The Privy Councillor: Adorno and Thomas Mann
- The Explosive Power of Saying No Thinking the Unconditional and Enduring the Conditional
- 16 Change of Scene: Surveying the Ruins
- • Playing an active role in postwar Germany?
- • Back to America: horoscope analysis and TV research
- • Letting the cat out of the bag: Kafka, Beckett, Hölderlin
- Activities in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s 17 Gaining Recognition for Critical Theory: Adorno’s
- • In the stream, but swimming against the tide
- • Speaking of the rope while in the country of the hangman
- • The crisis of the subject: self-preservation without a self
- • The purpose of life: understanding the language of music
- • Right living? Places, people, friendships
- 18 Eating Bread: A Theory Devoured by Thought
- Frankfurt School • The dispute about positivism: Via discourse to the
- • Against German stuffiness
- • The fat child
- the present • What kind of a society do we live in? Adorno’s analysis of
- 19 With his Back to the Wall
- • Patricide deferred
- • The futility of defending a theory as practice
- • Moments of happiness, despite everything
- • The divided nature of art
- • Death
- Epilogue: Thinking Against Oneself
- Notes
- References and Bibliography
- Index