[lbo-talk] Lowenthal_2

[Mike Beggs]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
> I can't resit this stuff:
>
> "If Teddie one day makes a real declaration of love and gives up his
> perfectly sinful bachelor status . . . for the equally hypocritical state of
> marriage, his declaration of love will undoubtedly take such a difficult
> form that the young lady in question will have to have read the whole of
> Kierkegaard . . . to understand Teddie at all; otherwise she will surely
> misunderstand him and reject him...'' From another Frankfurter, Kracauer.
> Teddie is Adorno, and for me his Negative Dialectics was like reading
> Heidegger backward.

I like Lukacs' quote (chapter 7): "A considerable part of the leading
German intelligentsia, including Adorno, have taken up residence in
the "Grand Hotel Abyss," which I described in connection with my
critique of Schopenhauer as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every
comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And
the daily contemplation of the abyss, between excellent meals or
artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle
comforts offered."

Book me a room!

Mike Beggs