Social Philosophy after Adorno

Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno''s successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno''s central insights on the negative effects of capitalism and new technologie...