The most philosophically sophisticated and searching study of Theodor Adorno to appear in English...powerful and persuasive. Introduction: Adorno in the Stream of Time, Baleful Enchantments of the Concept, Identity and Anti-Identity, Dialectics and the Extrinsic, Sociology and the Philosophical Concept, The Uses and Misuses of Culture Critique, Benjamin and Constellations, Models, Kant and Negative Dialectics, The Freedom Model, The History Model, Natural History, The Metaphysics Model, Parable of the Oarsmen, Bias Towards the Objective, The Guilt of Art, Vicissitudes of Culture on the Left, Mass Culture as Big Business, The Culture Industry as Narrative, Productivities of the Monad, Nominalism, The Crisis of Schein, Reification, The Monad as an Open Closure, Forces of Production, Relations of Production, The Subject and Language, Truth-Content and Political Art, Adorno in the Postmodern, Notes, Index.