Preface
Abbreviations
General introduction
Prelude to Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: Prelude I: Adorno's intellectual tradition: German philosophy
Prelude II: Adorno's intellectual tradition: Sigmund Freud
Part I. Negative Thesis: The Decline of Enlightenment: 1. The decline of subjectivity: the instincts
2. The decline of subjectivity: narcissism
3. The decline of knowledge acquisition
4. Knowledge acquisition: a negative solution
Part II. Positive Thesis: The Redemption of Enlightenment: 5. The aesthetic: aura
6. Knowledge acquisition: an aesthetic form
7. A positive dialectic of knowledge acquisition
8. A positive dialectic of subjectivity: the instincts
9. A positive dialectic of subjectivity: the structure of the self
Concluding comments
Bibliography
Index.
