Minima Moralia

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Minima Moralia is a collection of aphoristic reflections by Theodor W. Adorno that critically examines everyday life, culture, and morality in the context of late capitalism and postwar society.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
collection of aphorisms
philosophical work
author Theodor W. Adorno
context written during Adorno's exile and postwar return to Germany
countryOfOrigin Germany
criticizes authoritarian tendencies in modern society
consumerism
instrumental reason
mass culture
discipline cultural criticism
philosophy
sociology
EnglishTranslator E. F. N. Jephcott
form fragmentary
genre critical theory
moral philosophy
social philosophy
hasTranslation English
influencedBy G. W. F. Hegel
Karl Marx
Sigmund Freud
Walter Benjamin
language German
mainTheme alienation in modern society
commodification of experience
critique of bourgeois life
damage to life under capitalism
Dialectic of Enlightenment
surface form: dialectics of enlightenment
notableConcept critique of everydayness
damaged life
originalTitle Minima Moralia self-linksurface differs
surface form: Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben
philosophicalApproach immanent critique
negative dialectics
philosophicalConcern possibility of a good life under damaged social conditions
philosophicalTradition Frankfurt School
publicationYear 1951
publisher Suhrkamp Verlag
relatedWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
Negative Dialectics
structure series of short aphoristic reflections
subject culture
everyday life
late capitalism
morality
postwar society
tone melancholic
pessimistic

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Theodor W. Adorno notableWork Minima Moralia
Minima Moralia originalTitle Minima Moralia self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben
Negative Dialectics relatedWork Minima Moralia
Aesthetic Theory relatedWork Minima Moralia
critique of instrumental reason relatedWork Minima Moralia
subject surface form: Critique of instrumental reason