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      <name><![CDATA[Theodor W. Adorno]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[A real slog. Posthumously published. One suspects that Adorno would have culled at least one-fifth of the text had he lived to revise it. Anyway, it's fully worth the effort because of his radical reorientation of aesthetics and his theory of mediation, which rescues art from the often cold or mean-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16342571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[pretty great, stimulating theory of literature, until he starts looking at specific poems and poets, and you realise that Adorno is not actually a very good literary critic. apparently once he comes down out of critiques of heidegger and hegelian dialectic to actual flat-surfaced, ambiguous signifie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10081165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dense dense dense.<br/>Ever want to spend a little too much time reading one sentence then realize it has been three months?  Worth the read for what is going on, but prepare yourself.  You are not prepared.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only reason I don't give it a 5 is because it's a little too difficult for me. So it's not his fault, but I still give it 4 stars.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beauty is a funnel-cloud, transporting itself in the shapes it assumes by its turbulent motion.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Late works are the catastrophes in the history of art, embodying radical discontinuity.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>  Yea. right... currently reading.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[yay philosophical curmudgeonism!]]></body>
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