Sloterdijk and Adorno

[Dennis R Redmond]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Wouter Kusters wrote:

> -After reading this list for a while, I am getting curious to Adorno.
> Could anybody advice where to begin in reading Adorno (German or English
> is both ok). I got his Negative Dialektik, but I wonder whether this is
> the best starting point. 

"Negative Dialectics" is enormously complex, a very very difficult text to
understand. Your best bet is to start with "Minima Moralia", an excellent
set of essays, aphorisms and thoughts Adorno wrote during the mid-1940s. 
Also worth reading: "Versuch ueber Wagner", which contains some powerful
music criticism. Then move on to "Philosophy of Modern Music" and
"Dialectic of Enlightenment", which have to be read in conjunction with
one another (the first concentrates on an aesthetic theory of monopoly
capitalism, whereas the latter focuses on the sociological and political
dynamics of monopoly capital). 

-- Dennis