Primærlitteratur:
Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment m/ Max Horkheimer (London: Verso, 1979, evt. senere utgave ved Continuum), især ekskurs 1 og ekskurs 2
Adorno: Problems of Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Polity Press, 2000)
Adorno: Erziehung zur Mündigkeit (Frankfurt am Min: Suhrkamp, 1971).
Alford: The Self in Social Theory (New Haven: Yale U.P., 1991); Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 2001); Rethinking Freedom: Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done To Save It (New York: Palgrave, 2005).
Anbefalt sekundærlitteratur: Flathman, Richard: Freedom and Its Conditions: Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance (New York: Routledge, 2003)
Hammer, Espen: Adorno and the Political (Routledge, 2005)
Sennett, Richard: The Culture of the New Capitalism (Yale U.P., 2006)
Tester, Keith: Moral Culture (Sage, 1997)
A.J. Vetlesen: Evil and Human Agency (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2005), især kap. 3 om Alford.