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Letters to Walter Benjamin

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W. Adorno, T. (2007). Letters to Walter Benjamin. In Brecht, B. et al Aesthetics and Politics. Verso, pp. 110-133

(noun) a scar left by a hot iron; brand / (noun) a mark of shame or discredit; stain / (noun) an identifying mark or characteristic / (noun) a specific diagnostic sign of a disease / (noun) bodily marks or pains resembling the wounds of the crucified Jesus and sometimes accompanying religious ecstasy / (noun) petechia / (noun) a small spot, scar, or opening on a plant or animal / (noun) the usually apical part of the pistil of a flower which receives the pollen grains and on which they germinate

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Both bear the stigmata of capitalism

thought this was a cool way of using the term

—p.123 by Theodor W. Adorno
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Both bear the stigmata of capitalism

thought this was a cool way of using the term

—p.123 by Theodor W. Adorno
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(verb) to enclose within or as if within walls / (verb) imprison / (verb) to build into a wall / (verb) to entomb in a wall

127

I wonder whether such ideas need to be as immured behind impenetrable layers of material as your ascetic discipline demands

should have realised the word was French lol

—p.127 by Theodor W. Adorno
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I wonder whether such ideas need to be as immured behind impenetrable layers of material as your ascetic discipline demands

should have realised the word was French lol

—p.127 by Theodor W. Adorno
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7 years, 1 month ago

(adjective) of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel, his philosophy, or his dialectic method / (noun) a follower of Hegel; an adherent of Hegelianism

128

Let me express myself in as simple and Hegelian a manner as possible.

This sentence is weirdly adorable

—p.128 by Theodor W. Adorno
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Let me express myself in as simple and Hegelian a manner as possible.

This sentence is weirdly adorable

—p.128 by Theodor W. Adorno
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7 years, 1 month ago
130

This, I think, brings me to the centre of my criticism. The impression which your entire study conveys--and not only on me and my arcades orthodoxy--is that you have done violence to yourself. Your solidarity with the Institute [of Social Research], which pleases no one more than myself, has induced you to pay tributes to Marxism which are not really suited either to Marxism or to yourself. They are not suited to Marxism because the mediation through the total social process is missing, and you superstitiously attribute to material enumeration a power of illumination which is never kept for a pragmatic reference but only for theoretical construction. They do not suit your own individual nature because you have denied yourself your boldest and most fruitful ideas in a kind of pre-censorship according to materialist categories [...]

this is a masterpiece of criticism

—p.130 by Theodor W. Adorno 7 years, 1 month ago

This, I think, brings me to the centre of my criticism. The impression which your entire study conveys--and not only on me and my arcades orthodoxy--is that you have done violence to yourself. Your solidarity with the Institute [of Social Research], which pleases no one more than myself, has induced you to pay tributes to Marxism which are not really suited either to Marxism or to yourself. They are not suited to Marxism because the mediation through the total social process is missing, and you superstitiously attribute to material enumeration a power of illumination which is never kept for a pragmatic reference but only for theoretical construction. They do not suit your own individual nature because you have denied yourself your boldest and most fruitful ideas in a kind of pre-censorship according to materialist categories [...]

this is a masterpiece of criticism

—p.130 by Theodor W. Adorno 7 years, 1 month ago

added remark, things chosen (from Greek epilego); the -a ending is plural

132

Let me close with some epilegomena to the Baudelaire.

—p.132 by Theodor W. Adorno
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Let me close with some epilegomena to the Baudelaire.

—p.132 by Theodor W. Adorno
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