Adorno – “Minima Moralia 1.8: If bad boys should tempt you” (1944)

*The following is reposted from Marxists.org. If bad boys should tempt you. – There is an amor intellectualis [Latin: abstract love] for the kitchen staff, the temptation for those who work theoretically or artistically, to relax the intellectual [geistigen] claim on oneself, to lower one’s niveau, to follow all manner of platitudes in the matter … Read more