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Against authenticity -- Weimar Years -- In America -- Adorno's cultural criticism -- Return -- Aftermath -- Art and culture -- Adorno and popular music -- The aesthetics of music -- Modernism or avant-garde? -- History and truth-content -- The culture industry -- Aesthetic theory and ideology-critique -- Freedom and society -- Wrong life : Adorno's minima moralia -- Adorno and Kant -- Freedom and society -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The morality of thinking -- Living with guilt -- Philosophy and history -- Writing the disaster -- Crisis of reason -- Against historicism -- The task of philosophy -- Adorno and Marxism.

Introduction -- Part One: Democracy and Deconstruction -- 1. No Democracy without Deconstruction? -- 2. Deconstruction and Liberal Democracy -- 3. Deconstruction and Radical Democracy -- Part Two: Deconstruction as Political Practice -- 4. Deconstruction and Philosophical Nationalism -- 5. The Politics of Exemplarity: Derrida and Heidegger -- 6. Hospitality and the Cosmopolitical -- Part Three: Politics against Ethics -- 7. Economy of Violence: Derrida and Levinas -- 8. Against Community -- Part Four: Deconstruction and Depoliticization -- 9. The Spectrality of Politics -- 10. Depoliticization and Repoliticization -- 11. The Politics of Spectrality -- 12. Deconstruction and Depoliticization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This treatise argues that the classical virtues of courage temperance, practical wisdom and justice, which are largely ignored in modern moral philosophy, define the good of man. The author suggests that the values of success, pride and worldliness remain an important aspect of moral thinking