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From: "Torben Sangild" <sangild-AT-hum.ku.dk>
Subject: Sv: Sloterdijk and Adorno
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:17:36 +0200


If you want an introduction to Adorno, the best one is Simon Jarvis: "Adorno", a general, clear and very competent introduction. It should of course be seen as a help to reading Adorno himself, not a replacement.

I find Ästhetische Theori/Aesthetic Theory to be a very important (but also comprehensive) work. A way to start this book could be to read some of the fragments in the "Prolegomina" placed as the last section of the book. Or else, the beginning of the book is also relatively comprehensible, and very crucial.

Maybe you should tell us a bit more about your specific interest in Sloterdijk/Adorno - is it philosophical, aesthetic, sociological, political, historical?

Torben Sangild


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-oregon.uoregon.edu>
To: <frankfurt-school-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: Sloterdijk and Adorno


> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Wouter Kusters wrote:
> 
> > -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. 
> 
> "Negative Dialectics" is enormously complex, a very very difficult text to
> understand. Your best bet is to start with "Minima Moralia", an excellent
> set of essays, aphorisms and thoughts Adorno wrote during the mid-1940s. 
> Also worth reading: "Versuch ueber Wagner", which contains some powerful
> music criticism. Then move on to "Philosophy of Modern Music" and
> "Dialectic of Enlightenment", which have to be read in conjunction with
> one another (the first concentrates on an aesthetic theory of monopoly
> capitalism, whereas the latter focuses on the sociological and political
> dynamics of monopoly capital). 
> 
> -- Dennis


   

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