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Theodor W Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, newly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, London: The Athlone Press, 1997, pp xxi + 285

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Theodor W Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, newly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, London: The Athlone Press, 1997, pp xxi + 285

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Brian O'Connor*
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University College Dublin
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14 The contrast made by Habermas between mimesis and his own rather thin version of reason has given the latter to a false sense of plausibility.