Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Sartorial Matters

  • Adorno the Clean-Shaven on the Beard

    Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, p. 123: The beard is the oppositionist costume of juveniles acting like cavemen who refuse to play along with the cultural swindle, while in fact they merely don the old-fashioned emblem of the patriarchal dignity of their grandfathers. It seems fair to observe, however, that Adorno and the men of…