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Comparative Literature

City University of New York (CUNY)

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

2019

Frankfurt Institute

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Adorno And The Language Of The Intellectual In Exile, Ana Baert May 2019

Adorno And The Language Of The Intellectual In Exile, Ana Baert

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Adorno’s experience as an exile influenced his two works Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (1944) and Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life (1951). These works embody the adversity Adorno wrestled with in his personal life and voice a quasi-indignant resignation to the notion of displacement as a natural yet mutilated human condition. I will analyze Dialectic of Enlightenment through the subjective, experiential lens of Minima Moralia thereby revealing the personal allusions to Adorno himself in his analysis of Odysseus as the prototypical bourgeois.

This thesis explores a biographical approach of the man who was known for his viscero-critical voice. …