Minima Moralia

‘Minima Moralia’ is the title of a book that was published in 1951 and which remains in print to this day.

It carried a dedication, ‘For Max, in gratitude and promise’. This reference is to a different Max, but it is the kind of book where it is nice to have an association with it, even if only by name. And it’s a book that is still worth reading in our big new information age.

It seems a nice thing to open a blog using this name. For people who haven’t got into books, it may be a bit irrelevant if I tell them that, in the State Library of Victoria’s book-stacks, Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno sits right next to a three-volume work called The Principle of Hope by Ernst Bloch, written in the USA in the years 1938-1947, revised in 1953 and 1959, and published originally in German in 1959. Somehow it is reassuring to me that Minima Moralia and The Principle of Hope sit side-by-side in a place like the State Library of Victoria in a new century where we explore new technologies with new hope.