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"Instead of solving the question of women's oppression, male society has so extended its own principle that the victims are no longer able even to pose the question".

While Adorno is mostly right in this passage about the ceasless ability of capitalism to absorb identity antagonisms into its stucture, as always, he vastly underestimates post war social politics. He cannot even concieve of the 2nd wave occuring.

"The rose-scents of Elysium, much too voluble to be credited with the experience of a single rose, smell of the tabacco-smoke in a magistrate's office, and the soulful moon on the backdrop was fashioned after the miserable oil-lamp by whose meagre light the student swots for his exam".

AHHHHH THIS IS SO HARD TO READ

On psychoanalytic free association: "The same movement of mind which was once to elevate its 'material' to a concept, is itself reduced to mere material for conceptual ordering. The ideas one has are just good enough to allow experts to decide whether their originator is a compulsive character, an oral type, or a hysteric."

"Instead of comprehending the facts behind which the others are entrenched, it [irrationalist pseduo-philosophy] snatches those it can reach in its haste and makes off to play so uncritically with apocryphal knowledge, with a few isolated and hypistasized categories, and with itself, that simple reference to unyeilding facts is enough to defeat it."

When Adorno's wrong, hes completely wrong. But when hes right...

"The life style of belated bohemianism forced on the non-academic philosopher is itself enough to give him a fatal affinity to the world of arts-and-crafts, crackpot religion and half-educated sectarianism. Munich before the First World War was a hotbed of that spirituality whose protest against the rationalism of the schools led, by way of the cults of fancy-dress festivities...to Fascism..."