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Table of ContentsAbbreviations
Introduction
1. Against Authenticity
Weimar Years
In America
Adorno's Cultural Criticism
Return
Aftermath
2. Art and Culture
Adorno and Popular Music
The Aesthetics of Music
Modernism or avant-garde?
History and Truth-Content
The Culture Industry
Aesthetic theory and ideology-critique
3. Freedom and Society
Wrong Life: Adorno's Minima Moralia
Adorno and Kant
Freedom and Society
Dialectic of Enlightenment
The morality of thinking
Living with Guilt
4. Philosophy and History
Writing the Disaster
Crisis of Reason
Against Historicism
The task of philosophy
Adorno & Marxism
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
