Adorno on Politics after Auschwitz

Adorno on Politics after Auschwitz by Gary A. Mullen, Books on Google In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass […]

World’s Oldest Dictionaries Are 4,500-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets

The text is written in the oldest Semitic language yet identified and deciphered with oldest know bilingual dictionary, written in Sumerian (a language already deciphered) and Elbaite. The Elbaites wrote in columns and used both sides of the tablets. Lists of figures were separated from the totals by a blank column. Treaties, description of wars […]