>I've never been able to
>read Adorno's actual Negative Dialectics, even though I refuse to give it
>back
>to the person who lent it to me. But Benjamin is different - he is so
>readable.
>Anyone agree?
Benjamin is very readable, and wryly funny.
Adorno can also be readable - Mimima Moralia reads like a shiningly written
proto-blog, the writing on music is all beautifully stated, Aesthetic Theory
is clear & explosive, Culture Industry also.
Negative Dialectics & Dialectics of Enlightenment with Horkheimer are
difficult, but like a lot of supposedly difficult texts, they are teaching
you to read you in a new way, & then they become lucid and clear. It's more
difficult to see what Adorno is going on about if you haven't read Hegel of
course, but The Phenomenology of Spirit is one of the greatest poems, so no
fear there.
Edmund
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>Subject: Re: guardian review of tate modernism
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:15:36 EDT
>
>Roger, "That''ll be "pomo" - what a way to ruin a piece of drama." I am
>getting confused. The volume of postmod is too much and every time I see
>this tag I
>think it says guardian review of late modernism. If you are a Zappa fan
>then
>the best way to approach Adorno might be through Ben Watson's 'The Negative
>Dialectics of Poodle Play', or the worst way perhaps. I've never been able
>to
>read Adorno's actual Negative Dialectics, even though I refuse to give it
>back
>to the person who lent it to me. But Benjamin is different - he is so
>readable.
>Anyone agree?
>
>Cheers
>Tim A.
>
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