Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: The Art of Reading -- 1. Adorno and the Uncoercive Gaze -- 2. Buried Possibility: Adorno and Arendt on Tradition -- 3. The Inheritance of the Constellation: Adorno and Hegel -- 4. Judging by Refraining from Judgment: Adorno's Artwork and Its Einordnung -- 5. The Literary Artwork between Word and Concept: Adorno and Agamben Reading Kafka -- 6. The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno -- 7. False Life, Living On: Adorno with Derrida -- Conclusion: A Kind of Leave-Taking -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index