THEODOR ADORNO AND THE CENTURY OF NEGATIVE IDENTITY

Identity has become a central feature of national conversations. Not only do we have identity politics and identity crises, we have also learned to think positively in terms of identity when it comes to personal freedom, social rights, and group membership and neg atively when it comes to discrimination, bias, and hate crimes. Drawing on Isaiah Berlin's famous distinction between positive and n egative liberty, Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity considers the history of positive and negative identity and its expandin...[Read more]