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Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno

1959

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1959

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Theodor Adorno

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Adorno, Theodor. Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit [The Meaning of Working Through the Past]. 1959.

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