Sloterdijk and Adorno

[Wouter Kusters]

Thank you all for suggestions on how to start in reading Adorno.

Torben Sangild wrote
>If you want an introduction to Adorno, the best one is Simon Jarvis: "Adorno", a general, clear and very competent introduction. It should of course be seen as a help to reading Adorno himself, not a replacement.
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>I find sthetische Theori/Aesthetic Theory to be a very important (but also comprehensive) work. A way to start this book could be to read some of the fragments in the "Prolegomina" placed as the last section of the book. Or else, the beginning of the book is also relatively comprehensible, and very crucial.
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>Maybe you should tell us a bit more about your specific interest in Sloterdijk/Adorno - is it philosophical, aesthetic, sociological, political, historical?

Maybe it is already clear from my other post, but once again, my interests in Adorno are not for any professional sake, or for any application in political or sociological studies. I am just interested in general ways of thinking about, conceiving of, well, ehh, reality and life. Therefore I would like to know Adorno's way of thinking since I heard so much positive evaluations about him. I guess then, that I am mostly interested in his philosophical writings. For that reason I started in Negative Dialektik, but this seemed too much intertextually loaded, so I want to try some lighter stuff first.

Wouter Kusters