From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Lukacs + Adorno
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 97 16:41:12 18000


> Martin Jay's work is comprehensive
> and complete, but doesn't delve into the meat of Adorno's texts, which
> remain sterling models of a multinational dialectics, and the surest
> antidote to neoliberalism.
> -- Dennis

a quite belated response and a dormant thread...

Dennis, I've found your positive analysis of Adorno interesting given
that in what I've read - in translation to English only - he conveys
the impression that there exists no effective dissent...

are you familiar with an address that A gave to the German Sociological
Conference in 1968 (a year before his death)?...Tom Bottomore cites
this in his thin primer entitled *The Frankfurt School*/1984...

According to Bottomore, Adorno pursues an argument in which he
concludes that "the system", now independent of all members
of society, including those in the commanding positions, is driven on
by the impersonal forces of technological rationality...Michael



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