"<i>Without Model</i> is Adorno at his most relaxed, a sequence of short, sometimes fragmentary texts on aesthetics – a ‘Parva Aesthetica’ – assembled by the author in late life and published in 1967, two years before he died. . . . Adorno’s commitment to being without a ‘model’ – a <i>Leitbild</i> – is rooted in one of his most appealing dislikes, for the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. . . . the ‘small aesthetics’ in <i>Without Model</i> will defend ‘the zone that conformism seeks to proscribe as experimental’, which for Adorno, as ever, ‘is the last refuge of the possibility of aesthetic truth’."
London Review of Books