Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Liberalism and Its Discontents 11
6. 2. Neither History nor Praxis 29
7. 3. Outside Ethics 40
8. 4. Freedom as an Ideal 67
9. 5. Virtue and the Good Life 78
10. 6. Happiness and Politics 97
11. 7. Suffering and Knowledge in Adorno 111
12. 8. On the Usefulness and Uselessness of Religious Illusions 131
13. 9. Genealogy as Critique 153
14. 10. Art and Criticism in Adorno’s Aesthetics 161
15. 11. Poetry and Knowledge 184
16. 12. Plato, Romanticism, and Thereafter 206
17. 13. Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams 219
18. 14. Adorno’s Gaps 234
19. Index 249