Taneli Viitahuhta’s Reviews > Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School > Status Update

Twenties was surprisingly fluid and enjoyable, it IS a page-turner. One note: I think the metaphor of Adorno as a thinker bent to "blowing holes in philosophical edifices" gets it exactly half-way right. That principle of negativity is there, he approaches systems in an aggressive or destructive way - and its catchy. But what is missed, is dialectics! Adorno always stresses dialectics, for him its "das System".