Abstract
The failure of socialist revolution in Western Europe is often viewed as the key to understanding Adorno's diagnosis of modern society. The very first sentence in his main work, Negative Dialectics, reads: "Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed" (ND: 3). Socialist revolution, which might have overcome the irrationality of the existing bourgeois order and established a rational world, failed to materialize. This is why philosophy remains necessary as a vehicle of radical critique.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Theodor Adorno |
| Subtitle of host publication | key concepts |
| Editors | Deborah Cook |
| Place of Publication | Stocksfield, UK |
| Publisher | Acumen Publishing |
| Pages | 115-129 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781844654048 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781844651207, 9781844651191 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |