Adorno's gamble : harnessing German ideology /
"The book reinterprets the thought of Theodor W. Adorno, the leading light of the Frankfurt School and one of the most influential leftist intellectuals of the twentieth century, by arguing that his worries over the frailty of reason and democracy were inspired by radical conservative thinkers...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
2025.
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| Series: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.13168020 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Repurposing Zivilisationskritik for Progressive Ends
- Adorno's Klages Project : The Origin of Negative Dialectics
- "Caesarism" : Spengler's Master Class in Democracy's Self-Destruction
- "Demystification of Antiquity" : Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Epilogue : Legacies of Adorno's Gamble.