Reviews for An unmastered past

The average rating for An unmastered past based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-16 00:00:00 Robert Perry Probably the best general introduction I've read, but nobody is worse done by general introduction than Adorno. Particularly flummoxing is Jay's desire to eliminate Hegel from Adorno's work, and to separate him from Lukacs. He's good on Adorno's debts to Weber and Durkheim, pretty good on the musicology, but bad on the philosophical side of things, and makes some completely misleading claims (e.g., that the non-identical is an end in itself, when Adorno explicitly warns against believing that; that the 'exchange principle' is money, while for Adorno it is a/the Concept; that the Dialectic of Enlightenment is making trans-historical claims, when it is explicitly a theory of truth in time.) But it's well written at least.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-25 00:00:00 Robert Keene Furiously logging my thesis books so I can meet my reading challenge 2k19 ...Martin Jay is a legend!!