Round 12: Tossup 18

This book defines “tenderness” as an “awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.” This book says that gazes at beauty contain “indifference […] for all that lies outside the object contemplated,” exemplifying its author’s “aesthetic negativity.” One of this book’s critiques of Freud claims that he is ambivalent “between desire for the open emancipation of the oppressed, and apology for open oppression.” This single-authored book inverts Hegel by claiming “the whole is the false” (10[1])in a denkbild on “dwarf fruit.” The theme that an ethical life is impossible (-5[1])after fascism (-5[1])pervades (10[1])this (-5[1])book, which opens “Life does not live.” (10[4])This (10[2]-5[1])set of (10[1])“reflections (10[1])from damaged life” (10[1])is dedicated to its author’s (10[2])collaborator Max Horkheimer. (10[1])For (-5[1])10 points, name this book of (-5[1])153 aphorisms (10[1])and (10[1])essays by Theodore Adorno (10[1])with a Latin title. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[5])

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