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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno. 19031969. Published research on Theodor Adornoby Evelyn Wilcock is listed in the bibliography on her home page.
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Extractions: Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Adorno war ein Genie, ich sage das ohne alle Zweischneidigkeit . . Adorno was a genius. I say that without a hint of ambiguity. In the case of Horkheimer or Marcuse, with whom, by the way, I had a less complicated and, if you like, more intimate relationship, no one would have ever thought of saying such a thing. Adorno had an immediacy of awareness, a spontaneity of thought, and a power of formulation which I have never encountered before or since. One could not observe the process of development of Adorno's thoughts: they issued from him complete - he was a virtuoso in that respect. Also, he was simply not able to drop below his own level; he could not escape the strain of his own thinking for a moment. As long as one was with Adorno, one was caught up in the movement of his thought. Adorno did not have the common touch, it was impossible for him, in an altogether painful way to be commonplace.
Autorenverzeichnis: Theodor W. Adorno
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Extractions: Theodor W(iesengrund) Adorno, deutscher Philosoph, Soziologe, Musiktheoretiker und Komponist, wurde am 11.09.1903 in Frankfurt am Main geboren und starb am 06.08.1969 in Visp im Schweizer Kanton Wallis. Er arbeitete seit 1930 am Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung. 1934 emigrierte er aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland zunächst nach England später in die USA, kehrte aber nach dem Krieg nach Deutschland zurück und lehrte seit 1950 als Professor in Frankfurt am Main. Er war einer der Hauptvertreter der Kritischen Theorie. Hauptwerke sind: Kierkegaard 1933; Dialektik der Aufklärung (zusammen mit Max Horkheimer) 1947, Minima moralia 1951; Einleitung in die Musiksoziologie 1962; Negative Dialektik 1966.
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Index Des Noms - ADORNO Theodor W.
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Extractions: poka¿ powi±zane Adorno Theodor W. , w³a¶ciwie Theodor Wiesengrund (1903-1969), filozof, socjolog i muzykolog niemiecki . Jeden z g³ównych przedstawicieli szko³y frankfurckiej . 1934-1949 na emigracji, od 1938 w USA . Od 1950 profesor uniwersytetu we Frankfurcie n. Menem, od 1954 dyrektor Institut für Sozialforschung, z którym wspó³pracowa³ od lat 30. Zajmowa³ siê g³ównie wynaturzeniami relacji jednostka-spo³eczeñstwo, zw³aszcza autorytaryzmem. Opisa³ osobowo¶æ typu autorytarnego: cz³owieka uleg³ego wobec autorytetów i despotycznego wobec s³abszych. Jako metodê poznania, w opozycji do G.W.F. Hegla i K. Marksa , zaproponowa³ dialektykê negatywn± ( dialektyka ), która dziêki odrzuceniu syntezy, a wraz z ni± dominacji ogólnego nad szczególnym, pozwala³a eksponowaæ ró¿nice i poszukiwaæ tego, co w poznawanym specyficzne i niepowtarzalne. Historiê - stanowi±c± jego zdaniem tylko moment przyrody, prze³amuj±cy j±, lecz zawarty w niej immanentnie - postrzega³ jako dzieje narastaj±cego konfliktu miêdzy zasad± panowania a dopuszczalnym stopniem wolno¶ci. Stwierdza³, ¿e wraz ze zwiêkszaj±cymi siê mo¿liwo¶ciami si³ wytwórczych, wiêc tak¿e z opanowywaniem przyrody, ro¶nie przemoc ludzi nad lud¼mi i cz³owieka nad w³asn± natur± - jednostka poddawana jest przymusowi ogó³u i redukowana do cech daj±cych siê administracyjnie zinwentaryzowaæ.
Dissonanzen. Musik In Der Verwalteten Welt. Adorno Theodor W.
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Theodor W. Adorno. Metropolis. M Criterion Collection. Melancholy Science AnIntroduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno. Negative Dialectics. Adorno.
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Theodor W. Adorno - Wikipedia
Translate this page Andere Sprachen English. Theodor W. Adorno. aus Wikipedia, der freienEnzyklopädie. Theodor W.(iesengrund) Adorno (* 11.
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Extractions: Hauptseite Letzte Änderungen Seite bearbeiten Versionen Spezialseiten Meine Benutzereinstellungen Meine Beobachtungsliste Zeige Letzte Änderungen Dateien hochladen Zeige hochgeladene Dateien Zeige registrierte Benutzer Zeige Seitenstatistik Zufälliger Artikel Zeige verwaiste Artikel Zeige verwaiste Dateien Zeige beliebte Artikel Zeige gewünschte Artikel Zeige kurze Artikel Zeige lange Artikel Zeige neue Artikel Zeige alle Artikel (alphabetisch) Zeige blockierte IP-Addressen Wartungsseite Externe Buchhandlungen Druckversion Diskussion Andere Sprachen: English aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno 11. September in Frankfurth am Main 6. August in Visp Wallis in der Schweiz ) war ein deutscher Philosoph, Soziologe, Musiktheoretiker und Komponist. Theodor W. Adorno ist Sohn des Weinhändlers Oscar Wiesengrund und seiner Frau, Maria Calvelli-Adorno, einer aus Italien stammenden Sängerin Zusammen mit Max Horkheimer ist Adorno Hauptvertreter der Kritischen Theorie der Frankfurther Schule Er emigrierte nach Großbritannien und kehrte zurück.
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Adorno Theodor W. Dissonanzen. Musik In Der Verwalteten Welt.
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Extractions: 06.08.1969, Visp / Wallis Philosoph, Soziologe und Musiktheoretiker Der junge Philosophiedozent Theodor W(iesengrund) Adorno zählte vor 1933 zu einer Generation deutsch-jüdischer Intellektueller, die theoretische Einsichten des Marxismus, aber etwa auch der Psychoanalyse für die kritische Analyse der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft nutzen wollte. Mehr oder weniger enge Kontakte verbanden ihn mit Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin , Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Georg Lukács Bertolt Brecht u.a. Mit seinem Freund Max Horkheimer, dem Direktor des Instituts für Sozialforschung an der Frankfurter Universität, überstand Adorno das amerikanische Exil und reimportierte die sogenannte Kritische Theorie nach Westdeutschland. Ihre Frankfurter Schule gewann bald profilierte Köpfe aus der nächstjüngeren Generation ( Jürgen Habermas , Oskar Negt) und wurde in den sechziger Jahren zum Kristallisationspunkt gesellschaftskritischen Denkens im (und gegen den) weithin immobilen CDU-Staat - und damit zu einer theoretischen Quelle der Studentenbewegung von 1967/68. Adorno verstand sich als Fachphilosoph, der über Kant
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Extractions: 11. September: Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund-Adorno in Frankfurt am Main geboren Kompositionsunterricht bei Bernhard Sekles Los Angeles. In Zusammenarbeit mit Horkheimer entsteht die . Seit 1944 Teilnahme am Berkeley Project on the Nature and Extent of Antisemitism, aus dem die Studie The Authoritarian Personality hervorgeht, an der Adorno wesentlichen Anteil hat. Die Hauptwerke Minima Moralia und Philosophie der neuen Musik entstehen Letzter Aufenthalt in den USA; wissenschaftlicher Leiter der Hacker Foundation Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften seit 1968 Schwere Auseinandersetzungen mit Studenten 6.August: Tod durch Herzinfarkt in Visp (Wallis, Schweiz) Zeittafel aus: Hartmut Scheible, Theodor W. Adorno , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1989 (Rowohlts Monographien rm 400) Philosophie der neuen Musik Drei Studien zu Hegel. Aspekte. Erfahrungsgehalt. Skoteinos oder Wie zu lesen sei
Quotes: Theodor W. Adorno
A collection of quotes from his 1951 work, Minima Moralia. Provided by Eberhard Wenzel.Category Society Philosophy Philosophers adorno, theodor W. The following quotes are taken from theodor W. adorno (1974), Minima moralia. Reflectionsfrom damaged life. (First published in German in 1951.) London (NLB).
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Extractions: Theodor W. Adorno Last updated: 3 June 1998 The following quotes are taken from Theodor W. Adorno (1974), Minima moralia. Reflections from damaged life. (First published in German in 1951.) London (NLB) The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. 174 No emancipation without that of society. 173 Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. 182 The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. 175 He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. 166 Time flies. 166 Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society. But in erecting truth directly amid the general untruth, it perverts the former into the latter. 172 But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. 167
Biographie: Theodor W. Adorno, 1903-1969
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Culture Industry Reconsidered
In our drafts we spoke of 'mass culture'. theodor adorno Culture industry reconsidered (from "The Culture Industry Selected Essays on Mass Culture" London
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Extractions: THEODOR ADORNO: Culture industry reconsidered (from "The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture" London: Routledge, 1991) The term culture industry was perhaps used for the first time in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment, which Horkheimer and I published in Amsterdam in 1947. In our drafts we spoke of 'mass culture'. We replaced that expression with 'culture industry' in order to exclude from the outset the interpretation agreeable to its advocates: that it is a matter of something like a culture that arises spontaneously from the masses themselves, the contemporary form of popular art. From the latter the culture industry must be distinguished in the extreme. The culture industry fuses the old and familiar into a new quality. In all its branches, products which are tailored for consumption by masses, and which to a great extent determine the nature of that consumption, are manufactured more or less according to plan. The individual branches are similar in structure or at least fit into each other, ordering themselves into a system almost without a gap. This is made possible by contemporary technical capabilities as well as by economic and administrative concentration. The culture industry intentionally integrates its consumers from above. To the detriment of both it forces together the spheres of high and low art, separated for thousands of years. The seriousness of high art is destroyed in speculation about its efficacy; the seriousness of the lower perishes with the civilizational constraints imposed on the rebellious resistance inherent within it as long as social control was not yet total. Thus, although the culture industry undeniably speculates on the conscious and unconscious state of the millions towards which it is directed, the masses are not primary, but secondary, they are an object of calculation; an appendage of the machinery. The customer is not king, as the culture industry would have us believe, not its subject but its object. The very word mass-media, specially honed for the culture industry, already shifts the accent onto harmless terrain. Neither is it a question of primary concern for the masses, nor of the techniques of communication as such, but of the spirit which sufllates them, their master's voice. The culture industry misuses its con cern for the masses in order to duplicate, reinforce and strengthen their mentality, which it presumes is given and unchangeable. How this mentality might be changed is excluded throughout. The masses are not the measure but the ideology of the culture industry, even though the culture industry itself could scarcely exist without adapting to the masses. The cultural commodities of the industry are governed, as Brecht and Suhrkamp expressed it thirty years ago, by the principle of their realization as value, and not by their own specific content and harmonious formation. The entire practice of the culture industry transfers the profit motive naked onto cultural forms. Ever since these cultural forms first began to earn a living for their creators as commodities in the market-place they had already possessed something of this quality. But then they sought after profit only indirectly, over and above their autonomous essence. New on the part of the culture industry is the direct and undisguised primacy of a precisely and thoroughly calculated efficacy in its most typical products. The autonomy of works of art, which of course rarely ever predominated in an entirely pure form, and was always permeated by a constellation of effects, is tendentially eliminated by the culture industry, with or without the conscious will of those in control. The latter include both those who carry out directives as well as those who hold the power. In economic terms they are or were in search of new opportunities for the realization of capital in the most economically developed countries. The old opportunities became increasingly more precarious as a result of the same concentration process which alone makes the culture industry possible as an omnipresent phenomenon. Culture, in the true sense, did not simply accommodate itself to human beings; but it always simultaneously raised a protest against the petrified relations under which they lived, thereby honoring them. In so far as culture becomes wholly assimilated to and integrated in those petrified relations, human beings are once more debased. Cultural entities typical of the culture industry are no longer also commodities, they are commodities through and through. This quantitative shift is so great that it calls forth entirely new phenomena. Ultimately, the culture industry no longer even needs to directly pursue everywhere the profit interests from which it originated. These interests have become objectified in its ideology and have even made themselves independent of the compulsion to sell the cultural commodities which must be swallowed anyway. The culture industry turns into public relations, the manufacturing of 'goodwill' per se, without regard for particular firms or saleable objects. Brought to bear is a general uncritical consensus, advertisements produced for the world, so that each product of the culture industry becomes its own advertisement. Nevertheless, those characteristics which originally stamped the transformation of literature into a commodity are maintained in this process. More than anything in the world, the culture industry has its ontology, a scaffolding of rigidly conservative basic categories which can be gleaned, for example, from the commercial English novels of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. What parades as progress in the culture industry, as the incessantly new which it offers up, remains the disguise for an eternal sameness; everywhere the changes mask a skeleton which has changed just as little as the profit motive itself since the time it first gained its predominance over culture. Thus, the expression 'industry' is not to be taken too literally. It refers to the standardization of the thing itself - such as that of the Western, familiar to every movie-goer - and to the rationalization of distribution techniques, but not strictly to the production process. Although in film, the central sector of the culture industry, the production process resembles technical modes of operation in the extensive division of labor, the employment of machines and the separation of the laborers from the means of production - expressed in the perennial conflict between artists active in the culture industry and those who control it - individual forms of production are nevertheless maintained. Each product affects an individual air; individuality itself serves to reinforce ideology, in so far as the illusion is conjured up that the completely reified and mediated is a sanctuary from immediacy and life. Now, as ever, the culture industry exists in the 'service' of third persons, maintaining its affinity to the declining circulation process of capital, to the commerce from which it came into being. Its ideology above all makes use of the star system, borrowed from individualistic art and its commercial exploitation. The more dehumanized its methods of operation and content, the more diligently and successfully the culture industry propagates supposedly great personalities and operates with heart-throbs. It is industrial more in a sociological sense, in the incorporation of industrial forms of organization even when nothing is manufactured - as in the rationalization of office work - rather than in the sense of anything really and actually produced by technological rationality. Accordingly, the misinvestments of the culture industry are considerable, throwing those branches rendered obsolete by new techniques into crises, which seldom lead to changes for the better. The concept of technique in the culture industry is only in name identical with technique in works of art. In the latter, technique is concerned with the internal organization of the object itself, with its inner logic. In contrast, the technique of the culture industry is, from the beginning, one of distribution and mechanical reproduction, and therefore always remains external to its object. The culture industry finds ideological support precisely in so far as it carefully shields it- self from the full potential of the techniques contained in its pro- ducts. It lives parasitically from the extra-artistic technique of the material production of goods, without regard for the obligation to the internal artistic whole implied by its functionality (Sachlichkeit), but also without concern for the laws of form demanded by aesthetic autonomy. The result for the physiognomy of the culture industry is essentially a mixture of streamlining, photographic hardness and precision on the one hand, and individualistic residues, sentimentality and an already rationally disposed and adapted romanticism on the other. Adopting Benjamin's designation of the traditional work of art by the concept of aura, the presence of that which is not present, the culture industry is defined by the fact that it does not strictly counterpose another principle to that of aura, but rather by the fact that it conserves the decaying aura as a foggy mist. By this means the culture industry betrays its own ideological abuses. It has recently become customary among cultural officials as well as sociologists to warn against underestimating the culture industry while pointing to its great importance for the development of the consciousness of its consumers. It is to be taken seriously, without cultured snobbism. In actuality the culture industry is important as a moment of the spirit which dominates today. Whoever ignores its influence out of skepticism for what it stuffs into people would be naive. Yet there is a deceptive glitter about the admonition to take it seriously. Because of its social role, disturbing questions about its quality, about truth or untruth, and about the aesthetic niveau of the culture industry's emissions are repressed, or at least excluded from the so-called sociology of communications. The critic is accused of taking refuge in arrogant esoterica. It would be advisable first to indicate the double meaning of importance that slowly worms its way in unnoticed. Even if it touches the lives of innumerable people, the function of something is no guarantee of its particular quality. The blending of aesthetics with its residual communicative aspects leads art, as a social phenomenon, not to its rightful position in opposition to alleged artistic snobbism, but rather in a variety of ways to the defense of its baneful social consequences. The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on its objective legitimation, its essential being, least of all by a science which thinks itself pragmatic. On the contrary: such reflection becomes necessary precisely for this reason. To take the culture industry as seriously as its unquestioned role demands, means to take it seriously critically, and not to cower in the face of its monopolistic character. Among those intellectuals anxious to reconcile themselves with the phenomenon and eager to find a common formula to express both their reservations against it and their respect for its power, a tone of ironic toleration prevails unless they have already created a new mythos of the twentieth century from the imposed regression. After all, those intellectuals maintain, everyone knows what pocket novels, films off the rack, family television shows rolled out into serials and hit parades, advice to the lovelorn and horoscope columns are all about. All of this, however, is harmless and, according to them, even democratic since it responds to a demand, albeit a stimulated one. It also bestows all kinds of blessings, they point out, for example, through the dissemination of information, advice and stress reducing patterns of behavior. Of course, as every sociological study measuring something as elementary as how politically informed the public is has proven, the information is meager or indifferent. Moreover, the advice to be gained from manifestations of the culture industry is vacuous, banal or worse, and the behavior patterns are shamelessly conformist. The two-faced irony in the relationship of servile intellectuals to the culture industry is not restricted to them alone. It may also be supposed that the consciousness of the consumers themselves is split between the prescribed fun which is supplied to them by the culture industry and a not particularly well-hidden doubt about its blessings. The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self- loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all. The most ambitious defense of the culture industry today celebrates its spirit, which might be safely called ideology, as an ordering factor. In a supposedly chaotic world it provides human beings with something like standards for orientation, and that alone seems worthy of approval. However, what its defenders imagine is preserved by the culture industry is in fact all the more thoroughly destroyed by it. The color film demolishes the genial old tavern to a greater extent than bombs ever could: the film exterminates its imago. No homeland can survive being processed by the films which celebrate it, and which thereby turn the unique character on which it thrives into an interchangeable sameness. That which legitimately could be called culture attempted, as an expression of suffering and contradiction, to maintain a grasp on the idea of the good life. Culture cannot represent either that which merely exists or the conventional and no longer binding categories of order which the culture industry drapes over the idea of the good life as if existing reality were the good life, and as if those categories were its true measure. If the response of the culture industry's representatives is that it does not deliver art at all, this is itself the ideology with which they evade responsibility for that from which the business lives. No misdeed is ever righted by explaining it as such. The appeal to order alone, without concrete specificity, is futile; the appeal to the dissemination of norms, without these ever proving themselves in reality or before consciousness, is equally futile. The idea of an objectively binding order, huckstered to people because it is so lacking for them, has no claims if it does not prove itself internally and in confrontation with human beings. But this is precisely what no product of the culture industry would engage in. The concepts of order which it hammers into human beings are always those of the status quo. They remain unquestioned, unanalyzed and undialectically presupposed, even if they no longer have any substance for those who accept them. In contrast to the Kantian, the categorical imperative of the culture industry no longer has anything in common with freedom. It proclaims: you shall conform, without instruction as to what; conform to that which exists anyway, and to that which everyone thinks anyway as a reflex of its power and omnipresence. The power of the culture industryÕs ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. The order that springs from it is never confronted with what it claims to be or with the real interests of human beings. Order, however, is not good in itself. It would be so only as a good order. The fact that the culture industry is oblivious to this and extols order in abstracto, bears witness to the impotence and untruth of the messages it conveys. While it claims to lead the perplexed, it deludes them with false conflicts which they are to exchange for their own. It solves conflicts for them only in appearance, in a way that they can hardly be solved in their real lives. In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then in empty harmony, they are reconciled with the general, whose demands they had experienced at the outset as irreconcilable with their interests. For this purpose the culture industry has developed formulas which even reach into such non-conceptual areas as light musical entertainment. Here too one gets into a 'jam', into rhythmic problems, which can be instantly disentangled by the triumph of the basic beat. Even its defenders, however, would hardly contradict Plato openly who maintained that what is objectively and intrinsically untrue cannot also be subjectively good and true for human beings. The concoctions of the culture industry are neither guides for a blissful life, nor a new art of moral responsibility, but rather exhortations to toe the line, behind which stand the most powerful interests. The consensus which it propagates strengthens blind, opaque authority. If the culture industry is measured not by its own substance and logic, but by its efficacy, by its position in reality and its explicit pretensions; if the focus of serious concern is with the efficacy to which it always appeals, the potential of its effect becomes twice as weighty. This potential, however, lies in the promotion and exploitation of the ego- weakness to which the powerless members of contemporary society, with its concentration of power, are condemned. Their consciousness is further developed retrogressively. It is no coincidence that cynical American film producers are heard to say that their pictures must take into consideration the level of eleven-year-olds. In doing so they would very much like to make adults into eleven-year-olds. It is true that thorough research has not, for the time being, produced an airtight case proving the regressive effects of particular products of the culture industry. No doubt an imaginatively designed experiment could achieve this more successfully than the powerful financial interests concerned would find comfortable. In any case, it can be assumed without hesitation that steady drops hollow the stone, especially since the system of the culture industry that surrounds the masses tolerates hardly any deviation and incessantly drills the same formulas on behavior. Only their deep unconscious mistrust, the last residue of the difference between art and empirical reality in the spiritual make-up of the masses explains why they have not, to a person, long since perceived and accepted the world as it is constructed for them by the culture industry. Even if its messages were as harmless as they are made out to be - on countless occasions they are obviously not harmless, like the movies which chime in with currently popular hate campaigns against intellectuals by portraying them with the usual stereotypes - the attitudes which the culture industry calls forth are anything but harmless. If an astrologer urges his readers to drive carefully on a particular day, that certainly hurts no one; they will, however, be harmed indeed by the stupefication which lies in the claim that advice which is valid every day and which is therefore idiotic, needs the approval of the stars. Human dependence and servitude, the vanishing point of the culture industry, could scarcely be more faithfully described than by the American interviewee who was of the opinion that the dilemmas of the contemporary epoch would end if people would simply follow the lead of prominent personalities. In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects. The total effect of the culture industry is one of anti-enlightenment, in which, as Horkheimer and I have noted, enlightenment, that is the progressive technical domination of nature, becomes mass deception and is turned into a means for fettering consciousness. It impedes the development of autonomous, independent individuals who judge and decide consciously for themselves. These, however, would be the precondition for a democratic society which needs adults who have come of age in order to sustain itself and develop. If the masses have been unjustly reviled from above as masses, the culture industry is not among the least responsible for making them into masses and then despising them, while obstructing the emancipation for which human beings are as ripe as the productive forces of the epoch permit.
Writings Of Theodor Adorno
Excerpts include Le Prix Du Progress (with Max Horkheimer) from The Dialectic of Enlightenment; The Culture Industry Enlightenment As Mass Deception (with Max Horkheimer) from The Dialectic of Enlightenment and Culture Industry Reconsidered from The Culture Industry Selected Essays on Mass Culture.
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Extractions: Note: the following has been abstracted from the Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994. Adorno was born Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno in 1903. According to Martin Jay he may have dropped the Wiesengrund when he joined the Institute for Social Research in New York in 1938 because of its sounding Jewish. Between 1918 and 1919, at the age of 15, Adorno studied under Siegfried Kracauer. After completing his Gymnasium period, he attended the University of Frankfurt where he studied philosophy, sociology, psychology, and music. He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1924. In 1925, Adomo went to Vienna to study composition under Alban Berg, and at the same time he began to publish articles on music, especially on the work of Schönberg. After becoming disillusioned with the 'irrationalism' of the Vienna circle, he returned to Frankfurt in 1926 and began a Habilitationschrift on Kant and Freud, entitled 'The concept of the unconscious in the transcendental theory of mind'. This thesis was rejected, but in 1931, he completed another: Kierkegaard: The Construction of the Aesthetic , which was published in 1933 on the day of Hitler's rise to power. Once his thesis was accepted, Adorno joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research after Max Horkheimer became director. To escape from Nazism, the Institute moved to Zürich in 1934, and Adorno moved to England.
Theodor Adorno
Abstracted from the Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte.
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Extractions: Note: the following has been abstracted from the Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994. Adorno was born Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno in 1903. According to Martin Jay he may have dropped the Wiesengrund when he joined the Institute for Social Research in New York in 1938 because of its sounding Jewish. Between 1918 and 1919, at the age of 15, Adorno studied under Siegfried Kracauer. After completing his Gymnasium period, he attended the University of Frankfurt where he studied philosophy, sociology, psychology, and music. He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1924. In 1925, Adomo went to Vienna to study composition under Alban Berg, and at the same time he began to publish articles on music, especially on the work of Schönberg. After becoming disillusioned with the 'irrationalism' of the Vienna circle, he returned to Frankfurt in 1926 and began a Habilitationschrift on Kant and Freud, entitled 'The concept of the unconscious in the transcendental theory of mind'. This thesis was rejected, but in 1931, he completed another: Kierkegaard: The Construction of the Aesthetic , which was published in 1933 on the day of Hitler's rise to power. Once his thesis was accepted, Adorno joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research after Max Horkheimer became director. To escape from Nazism, the Institute moved to Zürich in 1934, and Adorno moved to England.

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