Caren Irr is Professor of English at Brandeis University, USA.

This compelling collection on Adorno’s aphoristic masterwork snaps it into contemporary focus with a range of essays addressing ‘damaged life’ in the present, from the resurgence of fascism in politics to the colonisation of life by work and the escalation of ecological violence. Adorno, it turns out, has been waiting for us in the twenty-first century.

• Foreword by Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University, USA)Introduction1. An Adorno for the 21st Century: IntroductionCaren Irr and and Diana Filar (Brandeis University, USA)Part I Thought After Fascism2. Minima Moralia and the Contradictions of Post-War PedagogyJakob Norberg (Duke University, USA)3. Breathtaking Leaps,” or from Doorknobs to FascismOshrat C. Silberbusch (author of Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical) Part II The Effects of the Aphorism4. Gesture, Survival, Utopia: Adorno's Senses of Critique S.D. Chrostowska (York University, Canada)5. Negative Dialectics, Negative Events: Aphoristic Knowledge as Melancholy Historicism in Theodor Adorno’s Minima MoraliaWyatt Sarafin (Harvard University, USA)Part III A Labor Theory of the Present6. “The Whole of Life Must Look Like a Job”: Minima Moralia, Utopian Idleness, and the CapitaloceneClint Williamson (University of Pennsylvania, USA)7. Self-Preservation, Self-DestructionCaleb Shaoning Fridell (CUNY, USA) Part IV Adorno’s Ecology8. Adorno and Animality After AuschwitzAndrea Dara Cooper (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA)9. Living with Damage: Adorno in the AnthropoceneCaren Irr (Brandeis University, USA)Bibliography Index

Caren Irr is Professor of English at Brandeis University, USA.

This compelling collection on Adorno’s aphoristic masterwork snaps it into contemporary focus with a range of essays addressing ‘damaged life’ in the present, from the resurgence of fascism in politics to the colonisation of life by work and the escalation of ecological violence. Adorno, it turns out, has been waiting for us in the twenty-first century.

• Foreword by Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University, USA)Introduction1. An Adorno for the 21st Century: IntroductionCaren Irr and and Diana Filar (Brandeis University, USA)Part I Thought After Fascism2. Minima Moralia and the Contradictions of Post-War PedagogyJakob Norberg (Duke University, USA)3. Breathtaking Leaps,” or from Doorknobs to FascismOshrat C. Silberbusch (author of Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical) Part II The Effects of the Aphorism4. Gesture, Survival, Utopia: Adorno's Senses of Critique S.D. Chrostowska (York University, Canada)5. Negative Dialectics, Negative Events: Aphoristic Knowledge as Melancholy Historicism in Theodor Adorno’s Minima MoraliaWyatt Sarafin (Harvard University, USA)Part III A Labor Theory of the Present6. “The Whole of Life Must Look Like a Job”: Minima Moralia, Utopian Idleness, and the CapitaloceneClint Williamson (University of Pennsylvania, USA)7. Self-Preservation, Self-DestructionCaleb Shaoning Fridell (CUNY, USA) Part IV Adorno’s Ecology8. Adorno and Animality After AuschwitzAndrea Dara Cooper (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA)9. Living with Damage: Adorno in the AnthropoceneCaren Irr (Brandeis University, USA)Bibliography Index

Caren Irr is Professor of English at Brandeis University, USA.

This compelling collection on Adorno’s aphoristic masterwork snaps it into contemporary focus with a range of essays addressing ‘damaged life’ in the present, from the resurgence of fascism in politics to the colonisation of life by work and the escalation of ecological violence. Adorno, it turns out, has been waiting for us in the twenty-first century.

• Foreword by Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University, USA)Introduction1. An Adorno for the 21st Century: IntroductionCaren Irr and and Diana Filar (Brandeis University, USA)Part I Thought After Fascism2. Minima Moralia and the Contradictions of Post-War PedagogyJakob Norberg (Duke University, USA)3. Breathtaking Leaps,” or from Doorknobs to FascismOshrat C. Silberbusch (author of Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical) Part II The Effects of the Aphorism4. Gesture, Survival, Utopia: Adorno's Senses of Critique S.D. Chrostowska (York University, Canada)5. Negative Dialectics, Negative Events: Aphoristic Knowledge as Melancholy Historicism in Theodor Adorno’s Minima MoraliaWyatt Sarafin (Harvard University, USA)Part III A Labor Theory of the Present6. “The Whole of Life Must Look Like a Job”: Minima Moralia, Utopian Idleness, and the CapitaloceneClint Williamson (University of Pennsylvania, USA)7. Self-Preservation, Self-DestructionCaleb Shaoning Fridell (CUNY, USA) Part IV Adorno’s Ecology8. Adorno and Animality After AuschwitzAndrea Dara Cooper (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA)9. Living with Damage: Adorno in the AnthropoceneCaren Irr (Brandeis University, USA)Bibliography Index