Carolina QuotesAdorno retains the concept of the system and even makes it, as target and object of critique, the very center of his own anti-systematic thinking. ... His most powerful philosophical and aesthetic interventions are all implacable monitory reminders—sometimes in well-nigh Weberian or Foucauldian tones—of our imprisonment within system, the forgetfulness or repression of which binds us all the more strongly to it.
Fredric Jameson Carolinian
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p. 27
- work
- Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic (1990)
- year
- 1990
- locator
- p. 27
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“Adorno retains the concept of the system and even makes it, …” Fredric Jameson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-1345CA90F4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/1345ca90f4
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