But since it must use these means, it is at every moment in danger of itself acquiring a coercive character' is taken to an extreme that is aesthetic (the first section is 'For Marcel Proust') as well as cerebral. Dialectical thought 'an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Given the diversity of these 'Reflections on Damaged Life' compiled in the molten core of the 20th century it's not surprising that what I recall is less the specific content of the book than the experience of reading it, the current coursing through its pages. I bought Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia in June 1986 from Compendium in Camden, London (a Mecca, back then, for theory-hungry radicals) and read it, intermittently, throughout the summer in Brixton. A classic of twentieth century thought, this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.
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