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Absolute Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
- Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And…
- So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not…
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- Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno