Questions tagged [adorno]
Questions related to the work of the German philosopher and sociologist Theodor W. Adorno (1903 – 1969). Adorno was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory; his works include Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951) and Negative Dialectics (1966).
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Is Minima Moralia suggesting that everyone is exchangable property?
It is not only, as Nietzsche knew, that all good things were once
evil: even the most tender of these, left to its own momentum, has the
tendency to culminate in unthinkable barbarity... Abstraction ...
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Trying to understand Horkheimer/Adorno Dialectic of Enlightenment
In the 1969 preface to the addition of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer/Adorno say, "Critical thought, which does not call a halt before progress itself, requires us to take up the cause of ...
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When is a subject position in a discourse antagonistic with others?
Just trying to relate my ladybird book of Foucault knowledge (though I've read him) to chat-gpt. When is a subject position in a discourse antagonistic with others? When is an LLM that is more ...
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Did Adorno think the effects of mass culture were uniform, or universal?
Did Adorno think the effects of mass culture were uniform, or universal? In what way are its effects always the same?
The intellectual enjoying a detective novel is meant to "escape his own ego, ...
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Was Adorno trying to destroy the enlightenment?
Was Adorno trying to destroy the enlightenment? I have no idea on and not read the dialectic of enlightenment, just bits on negative dialectics and aesthetic theory, and some secondary sources. I'm ...
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According to Horkheimer and Adorno, how is the Enlightenment Dialectical?
In 1947 the Frankfurt School philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno published their seminal work "Dialektik der Aufklärung", first translated to English in 1972 as "Dialectic ...
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What does “Objective Tendency” mean as used by Adorno?
I am beginning Minima Moralia and have found the dedication difficult to get through, but it seems like it contains important information. When discussing Hegel’s “relation to the subject,” and his ...
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Which of Adorno's books explains best his ideas on moral autonomy?
Which of Adorno's books explains best his ideas on moral autonomy? Can anyone provide a quick outline of them?
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What exactly is the relation betweeen artworks and communism, for Adorno?
What exactly is the relation betweeen artworks and communism, for Adorno?
I have read the beginning of Negative Dialectics, and some of Aesthetic Theory, as well as a analysis of the latter, and ...
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What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's fragmentation?
the most authentic art is modernist art which reflects in its own
fragmentation the fragmentation of society.
What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's ...
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Why did Kant, Hegel, and Adorno leave some words and phrases in the Greek alphabet?
I know this mostly from continental philosophers, like Hegel, Adorno or Kant: they use the greek alphabet when writing ancient terminology like ergon, telos or megalopsychos, while MacIntyre for ...
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What did Adorno think of Nietzsche's critique of morality?
What did Adorno think of Nietzsche's critique of morality?
I've not read much of either. But seems a bit like Adorno's theory of modernist art, however influenced by Nietzsche, wants to be moral, is ...
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Why is Adorno interested in Kant?
Why is Adorno interested in Kant? in the text, Problems of Moral Philosophy?
as a related question Why does Adorno prefer to use the term “morality” rather than “ethics”
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Why does Adorno prefer to use the term “morality” rather than “ethics”
Why does Adorno prefer to use the term “morality” rather than “ethics” in the text, Problems of Moral Philosophy?
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Does Habermas' 'performative contradiction' have more bite after Adorno gave up Marxism?
Does Habermas' 'performative contradiction' have more bite after Adorno gave up Marxism?
I took Habermas to be wrong because:
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