Can One Live After Auschwitz?

A Philosophical Reader

By: Theodor Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (Editor), Rodney Livingstone (Translator)

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This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century.
What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the "Western legacy of positivity," the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. The prime task of philosophy then remains to reflect on its own failure, its own complicity in such events. Yet in linking the question of philosophy to historical occurrence, Adorno seems not to have abandoned his paradoxical, life-long hope that philosophy might not be entirely closed to the idea of redemption. He prepares for an altogether different praxis, one no longer conceived in traditionally Marxist terms but rather to be gleaned from "metaphysical experience."
In this collection, Adorno's literary executor has assembled the definitive introduction to his thinking. Its five sections anatomize the range of Adorno's concerns: "Toward a New Categorical Imperative," "Damaged Life," "Administered World, Reified Thought," "Art, Memory of Suffering," and "A Philosophy That Keeps Itself Alive."
A substantial number of Adorno's writings included appear here in English for the first time. This collection comes with an eloquent introduction from Rolf Tiedemann, the literary executor of Adorno's work.

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"Can One Live after Auschwitz? provides a very useful cross-section of Adorno's work on the task of thought after the Holocaust." - The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "Despite his conviction that no philosophy could presume to approach an event like Auschwitz, this collection of Adorno's essays and aphorisms attests to his extraordinary effort to regard human suffering as the precondition of thought and as the undoing of all claims to totality. Adorno's cultural criticism emerges here as a moral philosophy for a 'world that has outlived its own demise.'" - Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University

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Introduction: "Not the First Philosophy, but a Last One": Notes on Adorno's Thought	p. xi
Note on Sources	p. xxviii
Toward a New Categorical Imperative
The Meaning of Working through the Past	p. 3
Education after Auschwitz	p. 19
Damaged Life
Selections from Minima Moralia	p. 37
Grassy seat	p. 37
How nice of you, Doctor	p. 38
Le bourgeois revenant	p. 39
Proprietary rights	p. 40
Refuge for the homeless	p. 40
Baby with the bathwater	p. 41
Savages are not more noble	p. 43
Out of the firing line	p. 44
Johnny-Head-in-Air	p. 47
Back to culture	p. 47
Invitation to the dance	p. 48
On the morality of thinking	p. 49
Morality and temporal sequence	p. 50
Folly of the wise	p. 52
A word for morality	p. 53
Melange	p. 54
Unmeasure for unmeasure	p. 55
People are looking at you	p. 56
Little folk	p. 56
Uninformed opinion	p. 57
Pseudomenos	p. 59
The paragraph	p. 60
Deviation	p. 60
Passing muster	p. 62
Picture-book without pictures	p. 63
Monad	p. 64
Bequest	p. 66
Late extra	p. 68
Boy from the heath	p. 71
Il servo padrone	p. 72
Model of virtue	p. 73
Rosenkavalier	p. 75
The bad comrade	p. 77
Expensive reproduction	p. 78
Juvenal's error	p. 80
Consecutio temporum	p. 82
Toy shop	p. 83
Novissimum organum	p. 85
Knackery	p. 87
Don't exaggerate	p. 89
Administered World, Reified Thought
Reflections on Class Theory	p. 93
Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?: The Fundamental Question of the Present Structure of Society	p. 111
Progress	p. 126
Cultural Criticism and Society	p. 146
The Jargon of Authenticity	p. 163
Crowds and Power: Conversation with Elias Canetti	p. 182
Art, Memory of Suffering
Heine the Wound	p. 205
Notes on Kafka	p. 211
Commitment	p. 240
Trying to Understand Endgame	p. 259
Beethoven's Late Style	p. 295
Schubert	p. 299
Wagner's Relevance Today	p. 314
Mahler	p. 333
Alban Berg	p. 357
Art and the Arts	p. 368
A Philosophy That Keeps Itself Alive
Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment	p. 391
Selections from Metaphysics: Concept and Problems	p. 427
Lecture Fourteen, "The Liquidation of the Self"	p. 427
Lecture Fifteen, "Metaphysics and Materialism"	p. 436
Lecture Sixteen, "Consciousness of Negativity"	p. 444
Lecture Seventeen, "Dying Today"	p. 452
Lecture Eighteen, "Metaphysical Experience"	p. 461
Credits	p. 471
Translators' and Editors' Notes	p. 473
Index of Names	p. 519
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