Adorno's Gamble Jason Ezell presenting the Nazi state and

presenting the Nazi state and the individual as dynamic and revolutionary

with the sometimes conflicting desire to maintain a particularistic community identity

illustrates the importance of context with reference to its use in the exploration of culture with diverse groups

Alex Tretbar

Adorno's Gamble Jason Ezell presenting the Nazi state andAdorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetic modernism, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno's thinking on instrumental reason, dialectic of enlightenment, and frailty of democracy: the intellectual underpinnings of Germany's "conservative revolutionary"