A classic of twentieth century thought, this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.

A classic of twentieth century thought, this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.

Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism. This is Adorno's theoretical and literary masterpiece and a classic of twentieth-century thought.

A masterpiece built from aphorisms and reflections, shifting in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And...(展开全部)

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And...(展开全部)

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And...(展开全部)

西奥多·阿多诺(Theodor Adorno, 1903年9月11日－1969年8月6日)，德国社会学家、哲学家、音乐家以及作曲家。他是法兰克福学派的成员之一，其社会批判思想让他自1945年起在法兰克福学派的批判理论中取得显赫的学术地位。

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificen...(展开全部)

吉米•卡特——美国第39任总统，原名詹姆斯•厄尔•卡特，但他一生中都使用昵称吉米•卡特。 卡特1924 年 10 月 1 日生于美国佐治亚州普兰斯一个农场主家庭，早年在海军服役，父亲过世之后返乡经营农场并进入政界。 1970年，卡特竞选成功，成为佐治亚州第76届州长。卡特在任内精简机构、整顿财政、保护自然和历史资源，被誉为“最有成就州长”。 1976年11月，卡特击败在职总统杰拉尔德•福特当选为美国总统。卡特任内实现中美正式建交，帮助埃及与以色列达成停战协议，取得了出色的外交成就。但由于1979年伊朗人质危机的影响，卡特未能获得连任。 卸任后，卡特建立卡特中心，协调战争冲突、促进人权与和平。2002年，由于“数十年来一直坚持不懈为国际冲突寻找和平解决方案，致力于增进民主、改善人权以及促进经济和社会发展的努力”，卡特获得诺贝尔和平奖。 卡特与夫人罗莎琳...(展开全部)