From: "Wouter Kusters" <wkusters-AT-rullet.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Sloterdijk and Adorno
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:34:12 +0200


I am not in a professional position where I study the Frankfurter Schule all day long. However, I have two minor questions:

-After reading this list for a while, I am getting curious to Adorno. Could anybody advice where to begin in reading Adorno (German or English is both ok). I got his Negative Dialektik, but I wonder whether this is the best starting point.

-My entrance to the Frankfurter Schule-list is because I am interested in the work of Peter Sloterdijk who has his roots firmly in the  Frankfurter Schule, although he thinks that the critical theory is dead with respect to its view on humanism as represented by Habermas. Does anyone have any opinion or evaluation of the work of Sloterdijk? Or is his influence restricted to Germany and its neighboring countries?

Wouter Kusters