We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – review | Biography books
In Minima Moralia – the fragmented, maddeningly difficult book of 1951 in which TW Adorno asked what kind of good life it is possible to live in a fragmented, maddeningly difficult world – the German philosopher wrote: “Repudiation of the present cultural morass presupposes sufficient involvement in it to feel it itching in one’s fingertips, so to speak, but at the same time the strength, drawn from this involvement, to dismiss it.” Adorno was wrestling with the proper stance to be assumed by the intellectual, who could…