Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the leading social thinkers
of the twentieth century, long concerned himself with the problems
of moral philosophy, or "whether the good life is a genuine
possibility in the present." This book consists of a course of
seventeen lectures given in May-July 1963. Captured by tape
recorder (which Adorno called "the fingerprint of the living
mind"), these lectures present a somewhat different, and more
accessible, Adorno from the one who composed the faultlessly
articulated and almost forbiddingly perfect prose of the works
published in his lifetime. Here we can follow Adorno's thought in
the process of formation (he spoke from brief notes), endowed with
the spontaneity and energy of the spoken word. The lectures focus
largely on Kant, "a thinker in whose work the question of morality
is most sharply contrasted with other spheres of existence." After
discussing a number of the Kantian categories of moral philosophy,
Adorno considers other, seemingly more immediate general problems,
such as the nature of moral norms, the good life, and the relation
of relativism and nihilism. In the course of the lectures, Adorno
addresses a wide range of topics, including: theory and practice,
ethics as bad conscience, the repressive character, the problem of
freedom, dialectics in Kant and Hegel, the nature of reason, the
moral law as a given, psychoanalysis, the element of the Absurd,
freedom and law, the Protestant tradition of morality, Hamlet,
self-determination, phenomenology, the concept of the will, the
idea of humanity, The Wild Duck, and Nietzsche's critique of
morality.
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