The basic goal of Theodor Adorno’s “Progress” is made apparent in the very first sentence: to provide a clear, theoretical and philosophical understanding of the concept of progress. Though he does not clarify until later, the author is referring to the progress of humanity in the widest possible sense. Simply contemplating this task [...]
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Theodor Adorno: Progress
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer, Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, critical theory, progress, regression on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Max Pensky : The Trash of History
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, critical theory, historical materialism, historicism, history, melancholy, object, subject on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Max Pensky’s “The Trash of History,” taken from the larger Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning, Walter Benjamin’s use of the objective dialectical image is viewed in juxtaposition–and unwanted collaboration -with subjective allegorical imagery. The dialectical image, where past and present interact with one another, is Benjamin’s method and [...]
Stefan Breuer : The Long Friendship – Theoretical Differences Between Horkheimer and Adorno
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer, critical theory, historical materialism, history on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Long Friendship: Theoretical Differences Between Horkheimer and Adorno originally appeared in the book On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives. In this essay Stefan Breuer successfully highlights the contrasting viewpoints that arise when juxtaposing the works of Horkheimer and Adorno.
Krzysztof Ziarek: Beyond Critique? Art and Power
Posted in Adorno, Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ziarek’s Beyond Critique? Art and Power details the complicated relationship of art and power after modernity’s realization of the limits of critique. This essay would be ideal for anyone interested in the power of art to open up the critical conversation while freeing critique in some sense from the oppressive structures of rhetoric. [...]
Adorno, Ellison, and the Critique of Jazz
Posted in Adorno, critical theory, history on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the “ Culture Industry” chapter of The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno and Horkheimer wrote of jazz, “ No Palestrina could have eliminated the unprepared or unresolved dissonance more puristically than the jazz arranger excludes any phrase which does not exactly fit the jargon. If he jazzes up Mozart, he changes the music not only [...]
Society by Theodor Adorno
Posted in Adorno on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In order to discover the central cause of the pronounced social and economic divisions according to Theodor Adorno it is first necessary to define the word “society” in terms of the individual and the forces by which individuals remain connected to it. The common representation of a society is any group of people who share [...]
Canetti, Elias + Theodor Adorno: Crowds and Power
Posted in Adorno, critical theory, subject, tagged Add new tag on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The article I read was a conversation between Theodor Adorno and Elias Canetti after Canetti’s publication of his book Crowds and Power in 1960. Adorno asks Canetti about the close relationship between crowds and power, survival and self-preservation, and his idea of the “invisible crowd.” Adorno begins by commenting that Canetti’s anthropological works reveal [...]
Josef Fruchtl : The Struggle of the Self Against Itself: Adorno and Heidegger on Modernity.
Posted in Adorno, critical theory, history, phenomenology, self, subject on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In this paper Fruchtl attempts to investigate the question of reflection on modernity. His main thesis is that to reflect upon modernity is to reflect upon the self. This immediately launches the investigation into the realm of subjectivity. He begins by building a picturing of the current dynamic concerning the subject. He creates a dynamic [...]
Theodor Adorno: Reflections on Class Theory
Posted in Adorno, historical materialism, history, progress, regression on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Theodor Adorno’s essay, “Reflections on Class Theory”, found in Can One Live After Auschwitz?, combines many of the themes that have been focused upon this semester, particularly Walter Benjamin’s notion of progress and Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s critique of mass culture. Set within a context of how the theory of class has changed into the [...]
Summary : Dialectic of Enlightenment
Posted in Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Kant, Enlightenment liberates us from authority. Those who hold authority—have mystery. The priest has special access to the mystery of religion; it is through him where God comes towards us. The Enlightenment says that human reason is capable of answering all the questions that the previous authority had answers to. When you have [...]
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