Ebook: Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society

A collection of essays and extracts, all published previously, on a wide range of topics. The editor's introduction, "'Not the First Philosophy but a Last One': Notes on Adorno's Thought" (pp. xi-xxvii), summarizes the essence of Adorno's philosophy and notes the impact of the Holocaust on his thought. Parts of the following deal with antisemitism and the Holocaust:;Introduction: "Not the First Philosophy, but a Last One": Notes on Adorno's Thought / Rolf Tiedemann -- pt. I. Toward a New Categorical Imperative -- 1. The Meaning of Working through the Past -- 2. Education after Auschwitz -- pt. II. Damaged Life -- 3. Selections from Minima Moralia -- pt. II. Administered World, Reified Thought -- 4. Reflections on Class Theory -- 5. Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?: The Fundamental Question of the Present Structure of Society -- 6. Progress -- 7. Cultural Criticism and Society -- 8. The Jargon of Authenticity -- 9. Crowds and Power: Conversation with Elias Canetti -- pt. IV. Art, Memory of Suffering -- 10. Heine the Wound -- 11. Notes on Kafka -- 12. Commitment -- 13. Trying to Understand Endgame -- 14. Beethoven's Late Style -- 15. Schubert -- 16. Wagner's Relevance Today -- 17. Mahler -- 18. Alban Berg -- 19. Art and the Arts -- pt. V.A Philosophy that Keeps Itself Alive -- 20. Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment -- 21. Selections from Metaphysics: Concept and Problems.