Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno

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Life under capitalism Capitalism

Author

Theodor Adorno

Source

The Meaning of Working Through the Past

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Philosopher Writer

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Germany Europe

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Adorno, Theodor. Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit [The Meaning of Working Through the Past]. 1959.

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Source
Clavigo
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