Written in the period between the drafting and final publication of Dialectic of Enlightenment, the 153 aphorisms of Adorno's Minima moralia can be described, like the work co-authored with Horkheimer, as an investigation into the causes that led humanity to sink "into a new kind of barbarism." However, in Minima moralia this question is examined from a highly singular perspective and methodology. Adorno proposes nothing less then the translation of individual and subjective experience into a universal and objective form of knowledge.
Theodor Adorno; Minima moralia; Dialectic of Enlightenment; Critical theory