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... to promote precisely that manner of intellectual freedom that has no place in the regnant philosophical movements

— Theodor Adorno Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy? (1963)

Sie möchte formal und material ebenjener Gestalt geistiger Freiheit helfen, die in den herrschenden philosophischen Richtungen keine Stel1e hat.

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