In the Hotel Abyss -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Background and Context -- The Orientation of the Present Study -- Adorno's Form of Presentation -- Theory and Practice -- The Management of Politics and Personal Relations -- The Socio-Historical Context -- 2 Hegel, Marx, Dialectics -- The Individual -- Being and Self-consciousness -- Becoming -- Contradiction -- Hegel's Positivity, Critical Theory's Positivism -- A Note on Dialectical Logic -- Mediation -- 3 Aspects of Adorno's Method: Constellations and Images -- Adorno's Bilderverbot and the Negation of Messianism -- 4 Jazz, Radio and the Masses -- The Masses and the Culture Industries -- The Jazz Essays -- Marx, Music and Relative Autonomy -- Black Influence and Historical Materialist Analysis -- Radio -- 5 The Masses and Pro-Fascist Propaganda -- Pro-Fascism and the Masses -- Irrationalism as the Basis of Analysis -- Lowenthal's Anti-Fascist Writings -- Adorno's Study of Martin Luther Thomas -- The Approach of Others to Antifascism -- 6 Mediation -- Hegelian Mediation -- Adorno's Mediation -- 7 Negative Dialectics, Identity and Exchange -- Negative Thought -- The Positive Moment in Dialectics -- Identity and Identity Thinking -- Concept and Identity -- Exchange -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index.