CONTENTS

Introduction: The Art of Reading

1. Adorno and the Uncoercive Gaze

2. Buried Possibility: Adorno and Arendt on Tradition

3. The Inheritance of the Constellation: Adorno and Hegel

4. Judging by Refraining from Judgment: Adorno’s Artwork and Its Einordnung

5. The Literary Artwork between Word and Concept: Adorno and Agamben Reading Kafka

6. The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno

7. False Life, Living On: Adorno with Derrida

Conclusion: A Kind of Leave-Taking

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index