we find ourselves in a precarious predicament: the current social world is evil because it realises inhumanity rather than humanity, and it is so deeply delusional that we cannot even conceptualise or imagine what realised humanity would consist in.

freyenhagen's intro is also exemplary - intellectual humility and upfront about methodology

it’s a little lacking in density, but that’s kind of okay for what it is - younger academic doing secondary lit establishing a specific interpretation. and it’s made harder by adorno’s aphoristic style which leads to a bit of repetition

repetition made especially worse because the chapters are intended to be possible to be read in isolation from one another for some reason