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Theodor W Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, newly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, London: The Athlone Press, 1997, pp xxi + 285

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Theodor W Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, newly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, London: The Athlone Press, 1997, pp xxi + 285

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Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain , Volume 18 , Issue 2: number 36 , Autumn/Winter 1997 , pp. 52 - 56
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7 Cf Rosen, Michael, Hegel's Dialectic and Its Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Chapter 7 for a detailed discussion of Adorno's ‘materialist transformation’ of Hegel's dialectic.

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14 The contrast made by Habermas between mimesis and his own rather thin version of reason has given the latter to a false sense of plausibility.