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Introduction: thoughts beside themselves Tom Huhn 1 Negative dialectic as fate: Adorno and Hegel J.M. Bernstein 2 Weighty objects: on Adorno's Kant-Freud interpretation Joel Whitebook 3 Adorno, Marx, materialism Simon Jarvis 4 Leaving home: on Adorno and Heidegger Samir Gandesha 5 Is experience still in crisis? Reflections on a Frankfurt school lament Martin Jay 6 Mephistopheles in Hollywood: Adorno, Mann and Schoenberg James Schmidt 7 Right listening and a new type of human being Robert Hullot-Kentor 8 Authenticity and failure in Adorno's aesthetics of music Max Paddison 9 Dissonant works and the listening public Lydia Goehr 10 Adorno, Heidegger and the meaning of music Andrew Bowie 11 The critical theory of society as reflexive sociology Stefan Müller-Doohm 12 Genealogy and critique: two forms of ethical questioning of morality Christoph Menke 13 Adorno's negative moral philosophy Gerhard Schweppenhäuser 14 Adorno's social lyric, and literary criticism today: poetics, aesthetics, modernity Robert Kaufman 15 Adorno's Tom Sawyer opera Singspiel Rolf Tiedemann.