Adorno on the Dialectics of Love and Sex

In this article, included in a special issue of the international journal "Krisis" dedicated to the celebration of Th. W. Adorno's masterpiece "Minima Moralia" 70 years after its publication, I investigate the dialectical conception of love and sexuality in Adorno's philosophy. Originally intersecting quotations from "Minima Moralia" with references to films and songs that deal with the same topic, I show how Adorno had a rich and complex conception of love and sexuality that also paid attention to their relation with such philosophical concepts and dimensions as beauty, aura, truth and utopia.