31. 7.3 Theodor W. Adorno — The Philosophy of the Double Blockade

Kai Froeb 2026

Part II: The Western Bloc - Liberalism as Antifascism (1945-1968)

  1. Preliminary remark: Why this chapter must be extensive
  2. Adorno’s starting point: The double catastrophe
  3. The first layer: Nietzsche’s legacy — The attack from below
  4. The second layer: Heidegger’s legacy — The attack from above
  5. The third layer: The distorted image of Hegelian logic
  6. Case study I: Negative Dialectics as a document of the double blockade
  7. Case study II: Minima Moralia as a document of the Nietzschean layer
  8. The systematic diagnosis: What Adorno misses in Hegel
  9. What remains: Adorno’s genuine achievement and its limits
  10. The history of influence: Why Adorno’s distorted image is so persistent
  11. Systematic balance: Adorno’s place in the history of Hegel reception
  12. Walter Benjamin — Dialectics at a Standstill (1940/posthumous)
  13. Jürgen Habermas — The Communicative Turn (1968–1971)
  14. Albrecht Wellmer — Critique of Critical Theory from Within (1969–1985)

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