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 »
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.
Martin Jay: Mass Culture and Aesthetic Redemption
Posted in Horkheimer, Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, art, avant-garde, esotericism, Horkheimer, Kraucer, modernism, redemption on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Mass Culture and Aesthetic Redemption: The Debate between Max Horkheimer and Siegfried Kracuer, Martin Jay explores the potential of art to redeem mass culture by dialoguing the contradictory thoughts of Horkheimer and Kracuer. In so doing, he offers an outline of their implicit debate and ultimately suggests with reservation the impossibility of [...]
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 [...]
Introducing Critical Theory
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer, Marcuse, critical theory on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Critical Theory has a narrow and a broad meaning in philosophy and in the history of the social sciences. “Critical Theory” in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished [...]
Introducing Horkheimer
Posted in Horkheimer on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Horkheimer was born in Stuttgart to an assimilated Jewish family; due to parental pressure, he did not initially pursue an academic career, leaving secondary school at the age of sixteen to work in his father’s factory. After World War I, however, he enrolled at Munich University, where he studied philosophy and psychology. He subsequently moved [...]
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