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    <body><![CDATA[So, this is great, but the translation is *horrific*. I'm not sure you can read this translation and have any idea what Adorno was getting at. Instead, try this free version: <br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.html" title="http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.html">http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.htm...</a><br/><br/>which works well enough as is. <br/><br/>Adorno's basic i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52461312">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This hard-as-hell philosophical work is a meta-critique of Kant and Hegel. Hegel explains in the <em>Phenomenology of Spirit</em> and throughout his body of work that anything that is real can be said or expressed in some way. Anything that is beyond the scope of logos, or reason, is therefore a non-entity. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60280430">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know if it's a loss in translation but Negative Dialectics reads like a German Jaimini. The style is dense to say the least but the content is genuinely exciting. I've given up on it for now will get back once I've read some of his more fundamental publications.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[To the isolated, isolation seems an indubitable  certainty; they are bewitched on pain of losing their existence, not to perceive how mediated their isolation is.' Theodor Adorno. Theodor Adorno was one of the great intellectual  figures of the twentieth century. Negative Dialectics is his major and culminating work. In it he attempts to free critical thought from the blinding orthodoxies of late capitalism, and earlier ages too. The book is essential reading for students of Adorno and is a vital weapon in making sense of modern times. Here the programme of Adorno's earlier writings  has come to fruition.' TLS]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[very useful, even if it reads as being a touch dated now. adorno's &quot;negation&quot; is really a sort of whacked-out socially responsible positivism. he hides it in a lot of elegant antinomy though. apparently that's what needed to make truth non-hegemonic. AGAIN.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Adorno's best work. His intellectual foundation. He sets forth a perspective that all can (and should) adopt as cultural critics. <br/>An awakening text that allows us to see what's really going on in capitalistic societies.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wish more philosophers would actually read it. ]]></body>
    
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