Liberalism and its discontents -- Neither history nor praxis -- Outside ethics -- Freedom as an ideal -- Virtue and the good life -- Happiness and politics -- Suffering and knowledge in Adorno -- On the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusions -- Genealogy as critique -- Art and criticism in Adorno's aesthetics -- Poetry and knowledge -- Plato, romanticism, and thereafter -- Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams -- Adorno's gaps