Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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belie

Brecht's disorientation before the revolt of the proletariat that belied (realized) his politics

—p.149 Presentation IV (142) by Francis Mulhern, Perry Anderson, Rodney Livingstone
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mutatis mutandis

Adorno's essays were not so much a Marxist defence of modernism as the expression of a distinctively modernist Marxism: his positions were, mutatis mutandis, those of modernist ideology itself

—p.149 Presentation IV (142) by Francis Mulhern, Perry Anderson, Rodney Livingstone
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aporia

Adorno was right to point to the epistemological aporia of realist aesthetic theory

—p.146 Presentation IV (142) by Francis Mulhern, Perry Anderson, Rodney Livingstone
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tendentious

Adorno's recourse to tendentious terms such as 'the people's community'

—p.145 Presentation IV (142) by Francis Mulhern, Perry Anderson, Rodney Livingstone
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ouvrierism

Summary condemnation of the actual insurgency of the working-class was combined with ouvrierist exultation of its in-dwelling virtues

footnote 1, on Brecht

—p.142 Presentation IV (142) by Francis Mulhern, Perry Anderson, Rodney Livingstone
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