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clogic-191537	Daniels, Rich	Non-Pious Discourse: Adorno, Ethics, and the Politics of Suffering	2019	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6675	319	58	Rich Daniels Copyright © 2010 by Rich Daniels and Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087 3 capitalist society and by the moral and utopian potential implicit in his thought and work.9 A counterpart of Adorno’s philosophical constellation (its dark matter, one might say) is the work of conservative (one-time National Socialist) philosopher Martin Heidegger to whom Adorno as anti-fascist played the role of chief philosophical antagonist throughout his life’s work – but this problem will not be further touched upon here.10 Theodor Adorno was deeply concerned with the question of whether or not one can live a moral life – a good or right life – in the modern world, and he argued the negative, that, as he puts it in his 1951 book Minima Moralia, “wrong life cannot be lived rightly” Some readers (including, oddly, the editors of the new Verso edition of Minima Moralia and in part J.M. Bernstein in his book on Adorno and ethics, and even Detlev Claussen in his recent biographical study of Adorno’s lifework) translate the critical theorist’s sentence to be a claim about “a” life, about Adorno’s personal or individual life, rather than about social or general life.12 That is, they seem to want to take it in a particular but not a universal sense, or at least they bridle at taking as a universal Adorno’s claim that wrong life cannot be lived rightly.	cache/clogic-191537.pdf	txt/clogic-191537.txt