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abjure

the early writings, which were disparaged by his Party and which he had himself abjured

on Lukács

—p.151 Reconciliation under Duress (151) by Theodor W. Adorno
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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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