The Challenge of Tradition : Critique and Redemption in Adorno's Late Writing Paperback / softback But no-one really knew

But no-one really knew

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The Challenge of Tradition : Critique and Redemption in Adorno's Late Writing Paperback / softback But no-one really knewThe Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Theodor Adorno's critique of tradition as being incompatible with capitalist modernity and his understanding of the need for maintaining aesthetic and cultural connections with the past. Placing the concept of tradition in the larger context of late modernity, Peter Uwe Hohendahl argues that Adorno redeems tradition even as he critiques it. Beginning his analysis with Adorno's 1966 essay, "On