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The realization of human sovereignty required the dissolution of such beliefs and the disenchantment of nature.

From now on, matter would at last be mastered without any illusion of ruling or inherent powers, of hidden qualities. On this reading, enlightenment is conceived of as superseding and replacing mythical and religious belief systems, the falsity of which consist, in large part, of their inability to discern the subjective character and origins of these beliefs.

Few would dispute a view of enlightenment as antithetical to myth. This is, however, precisely what Adorno and Horkheimer argue. Viewed in this way, the value of nature is necessarily conceived of in primarily instrumental terms: nature is thought of as an object for, and instrument of, human will.

This conception of nature necessitates drawing a distinction between this realm and those beings for whom it is an object.

Thus, the instrumentalist conception of nature entails a conception of human beings as categorically distinct entities, capable of becoming subjects through the exercise of reason upon nature.

For nature to be considered amenable to such subordination requires that it be conceived of as synonymous with the objectified models through which human subjects represent nature to themselves.

To be wholly conceivable in these terms requires the exclusion of any properties that cannot be subsumed within this representational understanding of nature, this particular form of identity thinking.

In this way, our criteria governing the identification and pursuit of valid knowledge are grounded within a hierarchical relationship between human beings and nature: reason is instrumentalized.

Men pay for the increase of their power with alienation from that over which they exercise their power. Enlightenment behaves towards things as a dictator toward men.

He knows them in so far as he can manipulate them. The man of science knows things in so far as he can make them. In this way, their potentiality is turned to his own ends.

Ultimately, the drive to dominate nature results in the establishment of a form of reasoning and a general world-view which appears to exist independently of human beings and, more to the point, is principally characterized by a systematic indifference to human beings and their sufferings: we ultimately become mere objects of the form of reason that we have created.

How do Adorno and Horkheimer attempt to defend such a fundamentally controversial claim? Throughout his philosophical lifetime Adorno argued that authoritative forms of knowledge have become largely conceived of as synonymous with instrumental reasoning; that the world has come to be conceived of as identical with its representation within instrumental reasoning.

Reality is thus deemed discernible only in the form of objectively verifiable facts and alternative modes of representing reality are thereby fundamentally undermined.

However, Adorno argued that human beings are increasingly incapable of legitimately excluding themselves from those determinative processes thought to prevail within the disenchanted material realm: human beings become objects of the form of reasoning through which their status as subjects is first formulated.

Thus, Adorno discerns a particular irony in the totalizing representation of reality which enlightenment prioritizes. Human sovereignty over nature is pursued by the accumulation of hard, objective data which purport to accurately describe and catalogue this reality.

As it stands, of course, the mere act of describing any particular aspect of the material realm does not, by itself, promote the cause of human freedom.

It may directly facilitate the exercise of freedom by providing sufficient knowledge upon which an agent may exercise discretionary judgment concerning, say, the viability of any particular desire, but, by itself, accurate descriptions of the world are not a sufficient condition for freedom.

Adorno, however, argues that the very constituents of this way of thinking are inextricably entwined with heteronomy.

The question as to whether these facts might change is ruled out by enlightened thought as a pseudo-problem.

Everything which is, is thus represented as a kind of fate, no less unalterable and uninterogable than mythical fate itself.

Conceived of in this way, material reality appears as an immutable and fixed order of things which necessarily pre-structures and pre-determines our consciousness of it.

The more the machinery of thought subjects existence to itself, the more blind its resignation in reproducing existence. Hence enlightenment reverts to mythology, which it never really knew how to elude.

For in its figures mythology had the essence of the status quo: cycle, fate, and domination of the world reflected as the truth and deprived of hope.

The ostensible difference between them is that the realm of facts appears to be utterly objective and devoid of any subjective, or anthropomorphic forces.

Indeed, the identification of a truly objective order was explicitly pursued through the exclusion of any such subjective prejudices and fallacies.

Subjective reasoning is fallacious reasoning, on this view. The pursuit of human sovereignty over nature is predicated upon a mode of reasoning whose functioning necessitates subsuming all of nature within a single, representational framework.

Assembled within a classificatory scheme these facts are not, cannot ever be, a direct expression of that to which they refer; no aspect of its thought, by its very nature, can ever legitimately be said to possess that quality.

However, while facts constitute the principal constituents of this classificatory scheme, the scheme itself, this mode of configuring reality, is founded upon a common, single cognitive currency, which necessarily holds that the essence of all that can be known is reducible to a single, inherently quantifiable property: matter.

They insist that this mode of configuring reality originates within a desire to dominate nature and that this domination is effected by reducing the manifold diversity of nature to, ultimately, a single, manipulable form.

For them the realization of the single totality that proceeds from the domination of nature necessitates that reason itself be shorn of any ostensibly partial or particularistic elements.

They conceive of enlightenment as aspiring towards the institution of a form of reasoning which is fundamentally universal and abstract in character: a form of reasoning which posits the existence of a unified order, a priori.

Its rationalist and empiricist versions do not part company on this point. Reality is henceforth to be known in so far as it is quantifiable.

Material reality is presented as having become an object of calculation. The form of reasoning which is adequate to the task of representing reality in this way must be necessarily abstract and formal in character.

Its evaluative procedures must, similarly, avoid the inclusion of any unduly restrictive and partial affiliations to any specific component property of the system as a whole if they are to be considered capable of being applicable to the system as a whole.

Adorno and Horkheimer present the aspiration towards achieving human sovereignty over nature as culminating in the institution of a mode of reasoning which is bound to the identification and accumulation of facts; which restricts the perceived value of the exercise of reason to one which is instrumental for the domination of nature; and which, finally, aims at the assimilation of all of nature under a single, universalizing representational order.

Adorno and Horkheimer present enlightenment as fundamentally driven by the desire to master nature, of bringing all of material reality under a single representational system, within which reason is transformed into a tool for achieving this end.

The attempt to fully dominate nature culminates in the institution of a social and political order over which we have lost control. If one wishes to survive, either as an individual or even as a nation, one must conform to, and learn to utilize, instrumental reason.

The facts upon which instrumental reasoning goes to work are themselves conceptual abstractions and not direct manifestations of phenomena, as they claim to be.

Adorno posits identity thinking as fundamentally concerned not to understand phenomena but to control and manipulate it. A genuinely critical form of philosophy aims to both undercut the dominance of identity thinking and to create an awareness of the potential of apprehending and relating to phenomena in a non-coercive manner.

Adorno argues that the instrumentalization of reason has fundamentally undermined both. He argues that social life in modern societies no longer coheres around a set of widely espoused moral truths and that modern societies lack a moral basis.

According to Adorno, modern, capitalist societies are fundamentally nihilistic, in character; opportunities for leading a morally good life and even philosophically identifying and defending the requisite conditions of a morally good life have been abandoned to instrumental reasoning and capitalism.

Morality is presented as thereby lacking any objective, public basis. Adorno attempts to critically analyse this condition. He is not a nihilist, but a critic of nihilism.

He argues that morality has fallen victim to the distinction drawn between objective and subjective knowledge. The first statement is amenable to empirical verification, whereas the latter is an expression of a personal, subjective belief.

Adorno argues that moral beliefs and moral reasoning have been confined to the sphere of subjective knowledge. He argues that, under the force of the instrumentalization of reason and positivism, we have come to conceive of the only meaningfully existing entities as empirically verifiable facts: statements on the structure and content of reality.

Moral values and beliefs, in contrast, are denied such a status. Morality is thereby conceived of as inherently prejudicial in character so that, for example, there appears to be no way in which one can objectively and rationally resolve disputes between conflicting substantive moral beliefs and values.

Under the condition of nihilism one cannot distinguish between more or less valid moral beliefs and values since the criteria allowing for such evaluative distinctions have been excluded from the domain of subjective knowledge.

Adorno argues that, under nihilistic conditions, morality has become a function or tool of power. The measure of the influence of any particular moral vision is an expression of the material interests that underlie it.

Interestingly, Adorno identifies the effects of nihilism as extending to philosophical attempts to rationally defend morality and moral reasoning.

Thus, in support of his argument he does not rely upon merely pointing to the extent of moral diversity and conflict in modern societies. Nor does he rest his case upon those who, in the name of some radical account of individual freedom, positively espouse nihilism.

Indeed, he identifies the effects of nihilism within moral philosophy itself, paying particular attention to the moral theory of Immanuel Kant.

Kant certainly attempts to establish a basis for morality by the exclusion of all substantive moral claims, claims concerning the moral goodness of this or that practice or way of life.

Kant ultimately seeks to establish valid moral reasoning upon a series of utterly formal, procedural rules, or maxims which exclude even the pursuit of human happiness as a legitimate component of moral reasoning.

Ultimately, Kant is condemned for espousing an account of moral reasoning that is every bit as formal and devoid of any substantively moral constituents as instrumental reasoning.

Kant, of all people, is condemned for not being sufficiently reflexive. Unlike some other thinkers and philosophers of the time, Adorno does not think that nihilism can be overcome by a mere act of will or by simply affirming some substantive moral vision of the good life.

Nor does he attempt to provide a philosophical validation of this condition. Recall that Adorno argues that reason has become entwined with domination and has developed as a manifestation of the attempt to control nature.

Adorno thus considers nihilism to be a consequence of domination and a testament, albeit in a negative sense, to the extent to which human societies are no longer enthralled by, for example, moral visions grounded in some naturalistic conception of human well-being.

For Adorno, this process has been so thorough and complete that we can no longer authoritatively identify the necessary constituents of the good life since the philosophical means for doing so have been vitiated by the domination of nature and the instrumentalization of reason.

The role of the critical theorist is, therefore, not to positively promote some alternative, purportedly more just, vision of a morally grounded social and political order.

This would too far exceed the current bounds of the potential of reason. Rather, the critical theorist must fundamentally aim to retain and promote an awareness of the contingency of such conditions and the extent to which such conditions are capable of being changed.

Nihilism serves to fundamentally frustrate the ability of morality to impose authoritative limits upon the application of instrumental reason.

I stated at the beginning of this piece that Adorno was a highly unconventional philosopher. While he wrote volumes on such stock philosophical themes as reason and morality, he also extended his writings and critical focus to include mass entertainment.

Adorno analyzed social phenomena as manifestations of domination. For him both the most abstract philosophical text and the most easily consumable film, record, or television show shared this basic similarity.

Adorno was a philosopher who took mass entertainment seriously. He was among the first philosophers and intellectuals to recognize the potential social, political, and economic power of the entertainment industry.

He aims to show that the very areas of life within which many people believe they are genuinely free — free from the demands of work for example — actually perpetuates domination by denying freedom and obstructing the development of a critical consciousness.

What is the culture industry, and how does Adorno defend his vision of it? Adorno described the culture industry as a key integrative mechanism for binding individuals, as both consumers and producers, to modern, capitalist societies.

Where many sociologists have argued that complex, capitalist societies are fragmented and heterogeneous in character, Adorno insists that the culture industry, despite the manifest diversity of cultural commodities, functions to maintain a uniform system, to which all must conform.

For people are now being treated as objects, machines, outside as well as inside the workshop. The consumer, as the producer, has no sovereignty.

The culture industry, integrated into capitalism, in turn integrates consumers from above. Its goal is the production of goods that are profitable and consumable.

It operates to ensure its own reproduction. The culture industry is a global, multibillion dollar enterprise, driven, primarily, by the pursuit of profit.

What the culture industry produces is a means to the generation of profit, like any commercial enterprise.

The culture industry promotes domination by subverting the psychological development of the mass of people in complex, capitalist societies.

How does he defend it? Through our domination of nature and the development of technologically sophisticated forms of productive machinery, we have becomes objects of a system of our own making.

Any one who has worked on a production line or in a telephone call centre should have some appreciation of the claim being made. Through the veritably exponential increase in volume and scope of the commodities produced under the auspices of the culture industry, individuals are increasingly subjected to the same underlying conditions through which the complex capitalist is maintained and reproduced.

The qualitative distinction between work and leisure, production and consumption is thereby obliterated. It is sought after as an escape from the mechanized work process, and to recruit strength in order to be able to cope with it again.

According to Adorno, systematic exposure to the culture industry and who can escape from it for long in this media age? Consumers are presented as being denied any genuine opportunities to actively contribute to the production of the goods to which they are exposed.

Similarly, Adorno insists that the form and content of the specific commodities themselves, be it a record, film, or TV show, require no active interpretative role on the part of the consumer: all that is being asked of consumers is that they buy the goods.

Adorno locates the origins of the pacifying effects of cultural commodities in what he views as the underlying uniformity of such goods, a uniformity that belies their ostensible differences.

Adorno conceives of the culture industry as a manifestation of identity-thinking and as being effected through the implementation of instrumentally rationalized productive techniques.

He presents the culture industry as comprising an endless repetition of the same commodified form. Thus, he presents the structural properties of the commodities produced and exchanged within the culture industry as being increasingly standardized, formulaic, and repetitive in character.

He argues that the standardized character of cultural commodities results from the increasingly mechanized nature of the production, distribution, and consumption of these goods.

Similarly, the increasing control of distribution centers by large, multinational entertainment conglomerates tends towards a high degree of uniformity.

However, his principal area of expertise and interest was music. Adorno analyzed the production and consumption of music as a medium within which one could discern the principal features and effects of the culture industry and the commodification of culture.

Adorno argued that the production of industrialized music is characterized by a highly standardized and uniform menu of musical styles and themes, in accordance with which the commodities are produced.

Consistently confronted by familiar and compositionally simplistic musical phenomena requires that the audience need make little interpretative effort in its reception of the product.

Adorno presents such musical commodities as consisting of set pieces which elicit set, largely unreflected upon, responses.

It is contemporary listening which has regressed, arrested at the infantile stage. Not only do the listening subjects lose, along with freedom of choice and responsibility, the capacity for conscious perception of music, but they stubbornly reject the possibility of such perception.

They are not childlike, as might be expected on the basis of an interpretation of the new type of listener in terms of the introduction to musical life of groups previously unacquainted with music.

But they are childish; their primitivism is not that of the undeveloped, but that of the forcibly retarded. Here Adorno drew upon a distinction previously made by Kant in his formulation of personal autonomy.

Adorno viewed the production and consumption of musical commodities as exemplary of the culture industry in general.

However, he also extended his analysis to include other areas of the culture industry, such as television and, even, astrology columns. Adorno conducted a critical textual analysis of the astrology column of the Los Angeles Times.

He thus took astrology seriously. Society is projected, unwittingly, on to the stars. Rather than describing astrology as being irrational in character, Adorno argued that the instrumentally rational character of complex, capitalist societies actually served to lend astrology a degree of rationality in respect of providing individuals with a means for learning to live with conditions beyond their apparent control.

The form and content of the culture industry is increasingly misidentified as a veritable expression of reality: individuals come to perceive and conceive of reality through the pre-determining form of the culture industry.

The culture industry is understood by Adorno to be an essential component of a reified form of second nature, which individuals come to accept as a pre-structured social order, with which they must conform and adapt.

Adorno is widely recognized as one of the leading, but also one of the most controversial continental philosophers of the 20th century.

Publications on and by Adorno continue to proliferate. Adorno has not been forgotten. His own, uncompromising diagnosis of modern societies and the entwinement of reason and domination continue to resonate and even inspire many working within the continental tradition.

However, he has attracted some considerable criticism. I shall briefly consider some of the most pertinent criticisms that have been levelled at Adorno within each of the three areas of his writings I have considered above.

Adorno can be very difficult to read. He writes in a manner which does not lend itself to ready comprehension. This is intentional.

Adorno views language itself as having become an object of, and vehicle for, the perpetuation of domination. He is acutely aware of the extent to which this claim complicates his own work.

In attempting to encourage a critical awareness of suffering and domination, Adorno is forced to use the very means by which these conditions are, to a certain extent, sustained.

His answer to this problem, although not intended to be ultimately satisfying, is to write in a way that requires hard and concentrated efforts on the part of the reader, to write in a way that explicitly defies convention and the familiar.

Adorno aims to encourage his readers to attempt to view the world and the concepts that represent the world in a way that defies identity thinking.

He aims, through his writing, to express precisely the unacknowledged, non-identical aspects of any given phenomenon. He aims to show, in a manner very similar to contemporary deconstructionists, the extent to which our linguistic conventions simultaneously both represent and misrepresent reality.

In contrast to many deconstructionists, however, Adorno does so in the name of an explicit moral aim and not as a mere literary method.

For Adorno, reality is grounded in suffering and the domination of nature. This is a profoundly important distinction. One of the most significant forms of criticism is associated with Jurgen Habermas, arguably the leading contemporary exponent of critical theory.

In essence, Habermas argues that Adorno overestimates the extent to which reason has been instrumentalized within modern, complex societies. For Habermas, instrumental reasoning is only one of a number of forms of reasoning identifiable within such societies.

Instrumental reasoning, therefore, is nowhere near as extensive and all-encompassing as Adorno and Horkheimer presented it as being in the Dialectic of Enlightenment.

There is not doubt that the deployment of technology has had the most horrendous and catastrophic effects upon humanity. However, Habermas argues that these effects are less the consequence of the extension of reason grounded in the domination of nature, as Adorno argues, and more an aberration of enlightenment reason.

Adorno is accused of defending an account of instrumental reasoning that is so encompassing and extensive as to exclude the possibility of rationally overcoming these conditions and thereby realizing the aims of critical theory.

Adorno is accused of leading critical theory down a moral cul-de-sac. Habermas accuses Adorno of having lapsed into a form of performative contradiction.

For Habermas, the very fact that a given political or social system is the object of criticism reveals the extent to which the form of domination that Adorno posits has not been fully realized.

The performance of the claim contradicts its substance. Adorno is consistently accused of failing to appreciate the moral gains achieved as a direct consequence of the formalization of reason and the subsequent demise of the authority of tradition.

On this view, attempting to categorize the Marquis de Sade, Kant, and Nietzsche as all similarly expressing and testifying to the ultimate demise of morality, as Adorno and Horkheimer do, is simply false and an example of an apparent tendency to over-generalize in the application of particular concepts.

Andrew Fagan Email: fagaaw essex. Biography Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno was born in to relatively affluent parents in central Germany.

Philosophical Influences and Motivation Adorno is generally recognized within the Continental tradition of philosophy as being one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th Century.

Identity Thinking and Instrumental Reason Adorno unequivocally rejected the view that philosophy and the exercise of reason afforded access to a realm of pristine thoughts and reality.

The Culture Industry I stated at the beginning of this piece that Adorno was a highly unconventional philosopher. Conclusion and General Criticisms Adorno is widely recognized as one of the leading, but also one of the most controversial continental philosophers of the 20th century.

References and Further Reading Adorno, T. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cumming, J. London: Verso, Print Cite. Facebook Twitter.

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In light of recent events, the Institute set about formulating a theory of antisemitism and fascism. On one side were those who supported Franz Leopold Neumann 's thesis according to which National Socialism was a form of " monopoly capitalism "; on the other were those who supported Friedrich Pollock 's " state capitalist theory.

Adorno arrived with a draft of his Philosophy of New Music , a dialectical critique of twelve-tone music that Adorno felt, while writing it, was a departure from the theory of art he had spent the previous decades elaborating.

Horkheimer's reaction to the manuscript was wholly positive: "If I have ever in the whole of my life felt enthusiasm about anything, then I did on this occasion," he wrote after reading the manuscript.

First published in a small mimeographed edition in May as Philosophical Fragments , the text waited another three years before achieving book form when it was published with its definitive title, Dialectic of Enlightenment , by the Amsterdam publisher Querido Verlag.

This "reflection on the destructive aspect of progress" proceeded through the chapters that treated rationality as both the liberation from and further domination of nature, interpretations of both Homer 's Odyssey and the Marquis de Sade , as well as analyses of the culture industry and antisemitism.

With their joint work completed, the two turned their attention to studies on antisemitism and authoritarianism in collaboration with the Nevitt Sanford -led Public Opinion Study Group and the American Jewish Committee.

In line with these studies, Adorno produced an analysis of the Californian radio preacher Martin Luther Thomas.

Fascist propaganda of this sort, Adorno wrote, "simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today's standardized mass culture who have been robbed to a great extent of their autonomy and spontaneity".

In addition to the aphorisms that conclude Dialectic of Enlightenment , Adorno put together a collection of aphorisms in honor of Horkheimer's 50th birthday that were later published as Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life.

These fragmentary writings, inspired by a renewed reading of Nietzsche, treated issues like emigration , totalitarianism , and individuality , as well as everyday matters such as giving presents, dwelling and the impossibility of love.

In California Adorno made the acquaintance of Charlie Chaplin and became friends with Fritz Lang and Hanns Eisler , with whom he completed a study of film music in In this study the authors pushed for the greater usage of avant-garde music in film, urging that music be used to supplement, not simply accompany, films' visual aspect.

Adorno also assisted Thomas Mann with his novel Doktor Faustus after the latter asked for his help. Before his return, Adorno had reached an agreement with a Tübingen publisher to print an expanded version of Philosophy of New Music and completed two compositions: Four Songs for Voice and Piano by Stefan George, op.

Upon his return, Adorno helped shape the political culture of West Germany. Until his death in , twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University , critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology, and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Adorno resumed his teaching duties at the university soon after his arrival, [ when? Adorno's surprise at his students' passionate interest in intellectual matters did not, however, blind him to continuing problems within Germany: The literary climate was dominated by writers who had remained in Germany during Hitler's rule, the government re-employed people who had been active in the Nazi apparatus and people were generally loath to own up to their own collaboration or the guilt they thus incurred.

Instead, the ruined city of Frankfurt continued as if nothing had happened, [ citation needed ] holding on to ideas of the true, the beautiful, and the good despite the atrocities, hanging on to a culture that had itself been lost in rubble or killed off in the concentration camps.

All the enthusiasm Adorno's students showed for intellectual matters could not erase the suspicion that, in the words of Max Frisch , culture had become an "alibi" for the absence of political consciousness.

Starting with his essay Wagner, Nietzsche and Hitler , [35] Adorno produced a series of influential works to describe psychological fascist traits.

One of these works was The Authoritarian Personality , [36] published as a contribution to the Studies in Prejudice performed by multiple research institutes in the US, and consisting of a ' qualitative interpretations ' that uncovered the authoritarian character of test persons through indirect questions.

In he continued on the topic with his essay Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda , in which he said that "Psychological dispositions do not actually cause fascism; rather, fascism defines a psychological area which can be successfully exploited by the forces which promote it for entirely non-psychological reasons of self-interest.

In Adorno participated in a group experiment, revealing residual National Socialist attitudes among the recently democratized Germans. He then published two influential essays, The Meaning of Working Through the Past , and Education after Auschwitz , in which he argued on the survival of the uneradicated National Socialism in the mind-sets and institutions of the post Germany, and that there is still a real risk that it could rise again.

Here he emphasized the importance of data collection and statistical evaluation while asserting that such empirical methods have only an auxiliary function and must lead to the formation of theories which would "raise the harsh facts to the level of consciousness.

With Horkheimer as dean of the Arts Faculty, then rector of the university, responsibilities for the Institute's work fell upon Adorno.

At the same time, however, Adorno renewed his musical work: with talks at the Kranichsteiner Musikgesellschaft, another in connection with a production of Ernst Krenek 's opera Leben des Orest , and a seminar on "Criteria of New Music" at the Fifth International Summer Course for New Music at Kranichstein.

Adorno also became increasingly involved with the publishing house of Peter Suhrkamp , inducing the latter to publish Benjamin's Berlin Childhood Around , Kracauer's writings and a two-volume edition of Benjamin's writings.

Adorno's own recently published Minima Moralia was not only well received in the press, but also met with great admiration from Thomas Mann, who wrote to Adorno from America in I have spent days attached to your book as if by a magnet.

Every day brings new fascination It is said that the companion star to Sirius, white in colour, is made of such dense material that a cubic inch of it would weigh a tonne here.

This is why it has such an extremely powerful gravitational field; in this respect it is similar to your book. Yet Adorno was no less moved by other public events: protesting the publication of Heinrich Mann 's novel Professor Unrat with its film title, The Blue Angel ; declaring his sympathy with those who protested the scandal of big-game hunting and penning a defense of prostitutes.

Because Adorno's American citizenship would have been forfeited by the middle of had he continued to stay outside the country, he returned once again to Santa Monica to survey his prospects at the Hacker Foundation.

While there he wrote a content analysis of newspaper horoscopes now collected in The Stars Down to Earth , and the essays "Television as Ideology" and "Prologue to Television"; even so, he was pleased when, at the end of ten months, he was enjoined to return as co-director of the Institute.

In response to the publication of Thomas Mann 's The Black Swan , Adorno penned a long letter to the author, who then approved its publication in the literary journal Akzente.

A second collection of essays, Notes to Literature , appeared in Adorno's entrance into literary discussions continued in his June lecture at the annual conference of the Hölderlin Society.

Although the Zeitschrift was never revived, the Institute nevertheless published a series of important sociological books, including Sociologica , a collection of essays, Gruppenexperiment , Betriebsklima , a study of work satisfaction among workers in Mannesmann, and Soziologische Exkurse , a textbook-like anthology intended as an introductory work about the discipline.

Throughout the fifties and sixties, Adorno became a public figure , not simply through his books and essays, but also through his appearances in radio and newspapers.

Yet conflicts between the so-called Darmstadt school , which included composers like Pierre Boulez , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Luigi Nono , Bruno Maderna , Karel Goeyvaerts , Luciano Berio and Gottfried Michael Koenig , soon arose, receiving explicit expression in Adorno's lecture, "The Aging of the New Music", where he argued that atonality's freedom was being restricted to serialism in much the same way as it was once restricted by twelve-tone technique.

With his friend Eduard Steuermann , Adorno feared that music was being sacrificed to stubborn rationalization.

During this time Adorno not only produced a significant series of notes on Beethoven which was never completed and only published posthumously , but also published Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy in In his return to Kranichstein, Adorno called for what he termed a "musique informelle", which would possess the ability "really and truly to be what it is, without the ideological pretense of being something else.

Or rather, to admit frankly the fact of non-identity and to follow through its logic to the end. At the same time Adorno struck up relationships with contemporary German-language poets such as Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.

Adorno's dictum—"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric"—posed the question of what German culture could mean after Auschwitz; his own continual revision of this dictum—in Negative Dialectics , for example, he wrote that "Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream"; while in "Commitment," he wrote in that the dictum "expresses in negative form the impulse which inspires committed literature"—was part of post-war Germany's struggle with history and culture.

Adorno additionally befriended the writer and poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger as well as the film-maker Alexander Kluge.

In , Adorno was elected to the post of chairman of the German Sociological Society, where he presided over two important conferences: in , on "Max Weber and Sociology" and in on "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society".

Adorno's critique of the dominant climate of post-war Germany was also directed against the pathos that had grown up around Heideggerianism, as practiced by writers like Karl Jaspers and Otto Friedrich Bollnow , and which had subsequently seeped into public discourse.

His publication of The Jargon of Authenticity took aim at the halo such writers had attached to words like "angst", "decision" and "leap".

After seven years of work, Adorno completed Negative Dialectics in , after which, during the summer semester of and the winter semester of —68, he offered regular philosophy seminars to discuss the book chapter by chapter.

One objection which would soon take on ever greater importance, was that critical thought must adopt the standpoint of the oppressed, to which Adorno replied that negative dialectics was concerned "with the dissolution of standpoint thinking itself.

At the time of Negative Dialectics ' publication, the fragility of West German democracy led to increasing student protests.

Monopolistic trends in the media, an educational crisis in the universities, the Shah of Iran's state visit, German support for the war in Vietnam and the emergency laws combined to create a highly unstable situation.

Like many of his students, Adorno too opposed the emergency laws , as well as the war in Vietnam, which, he said, proved the continued existence of the "world of torture that had begun in Auschwitz".

This death, as well as the subsequent acquittal of the responsible officer, were both commented upon in Adorno's lectures. As politicization increased, rifts developed within both the Institute's relationship with its students as well as within the Institute itself.

Soon Adorno himself would become an object of the students' ire. After a group of students marched to the lectern, unfurling a banner that read "Berlin's left-wing fascists greet Teddy the Classicist," a number of those present left the lecture in protest after Adorno refused to abandon his talk in favour of discussing his attitude on the current political situation.

But as progressed, Adorno became increasingly critical of the students' disruptions to university life.

His isolation was only compounded by articles published in the magazine alternative , which, following the lead of Hannah Arendt 's articles in Merkur , claimed Adorno had subjected Benjamin to pressure during his years of exile in Berlin and compiled Benjamin's Writings and Letters with a great deal of bias.

In response, Benjamin's longtime friend Gershom Scholem , wrote to the editor of Merkur to express his disapproval of the "in part, shameful, not to say disgraceful" remarks by Arendt.

Relations between students and the West German state continued deteriorating. In spring , a prominent SDS spokesman, Rudi Dutschke , was gunned down in the streets; in response, massive demonstrations took place, directed in particular against the Springer Press , which had led a campaign to vilify the students.

An open appeal published in Die Zeit , signed by Adorno, called for an inquiry into the social reasons that gave rise to this assassination attempt as well as an investigation into the Springer Press' manipulation of public opinion.

At the same time, however, Adorno protested against disruptions of his own lectures and refused to express his solidarity with their political goals, maintaining instead his autonomy as a theoretician.

Adorno rejected the so-called unity of theory and praxis advocated by the students and argued that the students' actions were premised upon a mistaken analysis of the situation.

The building of barricades, he wrote to Marcuse, is "ridiculous against those who administer the bomb. Upon his return to Frankfurt, events prevented his concentrating upon the book on aesthetics he wished to write: "Valid student claims and dubious actions," he wrote to Marcuse, "are all so mixed up together that all productive work and even sensible thought are scarcely possible any more.

Adorno began writing an introduction to a collection of poetry by Rudolf Borchardt, which was connected with a talk entitled "Charmed Language," delivered in Zurich, followed by a talk on aesthetics in Paris where he met Beckett again.

Beginning in October , Adorno took up work on Aesthetic Theory. In June he completed Catchwords: Critical Models. During the winter semester of —69 Adorno was on sabbatical leave from the university and thus able to dedicate himself to the completion of his book of aesthetics.

For the summer semester Adorno planned a lecture course entitled "An Introduction to Dialectical Thinking," as well as a seminar on the dialectics of subject and object.

But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard "If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.

After further disruptions to his lectures, Adorno canceled the lectures for the rest of the seminar, continuing only with his philosophy seminar.

In the summer of , weary from these activities, Adorno returned once again to Zermatt, Switzerland , at the foot of Matterhorn to restore his strength.

On August 6 he died of a heart attack. Their major theories fascinated many left-wing intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century.

Lorenz Jäger speaks critically of Adorno's " Achilles' heel " in his political biography: that Adorno placed "almost unlimited trust in finished teachings, in Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the teachings of the Second Viennese School.

Adorno's adoption of Hegelian philosophy can be traced back to his inaugural lecture in , in which he postulated: "only dialectically does philosophical interpretation seem possible to me" Gesammelte Schriften 1: Hegel rejected the idea of separating methods and content, because thinking is always thinking of something; dialectics for him is "the comprehended movement of the object itself.

Adorno understood his Three Studies of Hegel as "preparation of a changed definition of dialectics" and that they stop "where the start should be" Gesammelte Schriften 5: f.

Adorno dedicated himself to this task in one of his later major works, the Negative Dialectics The title expresses "tradition and rebellion in equal measure.

Marx's Critique of Political Economy clearly shaped Adorno's thinking. As described by Jürgen Habermas , Marxist critique is, for Adorno, a "silent orthodoxy, whose categories [are revealed] in Adorno's cultural critique , although their influence is not explicitly named.

These are closely related to Adorno's concept of trade , which stands in the center of his philosophy, not exclusively restricted to economic theory.

Adorno's "exchange society" Tauschgesellschaft , with its "insatiable and destructive appetite for expansion," is easily decoded as a description of capitalism.

Class theory , which appears less frequently in Adorno's work, also has its origins in Marxist thinking. Adorno made explicit reference to class in two of his texts: the first, the subchapter "Classes and Strata" Klassen und Schichten , from his Introduction to the Sociology of Music ; the second, an unpublished essay, "Reflections on Class Theory", published postmortem in his Collected Works.

Psychoanalysis is a constitutive element of critical theory. In it Adorno argued that "the healing of all neuroses is synonymous with the complete understanding of the meaning of their symptoms by the patient".

In his essay "On the Relationship between Sociology and Psychology" , he justified the need to "supplement the theory of society with psychology, especially analytically oriented social psychology" in the face of fascism.

Adorno emphasized the necessity of researching prevailing psychological drives in order to explain the cohesion of a repressive society acting against fundamental human interests.

Adorno always remained a supporter and defender of Freudian orthodox doctrine, "psychoanalysis in its strict form".

He expressed reservations about sociologized psychoanalysis [63] as well as about its reduction to a therapeutic procedure.

Adorno's work sets out from a central insight he shares with all early 20th century avant-garde art: the recognition of what is primitive in ourselves and the world itself.

Neither Picasso 's fascination with African sculpture nor Mondrian 's reduction of painting to its most elementary component—the line—is comprehensible outside this concern with primitivism Adorno shared with the century's most radical art.

At that time, the Western world, beset by world-wars, colonialist consolidation and accelerating commodification , sank into the very barbarism civilization had prided itself in overcoming.

According to Adorno, society's self-preservation had become indistinguishable from societally sanctioned self-sacrifice: of "primitive" peoples, primitive aspects of the ego and those primitive, mimetic desires found in imitation and sympathy.

Adorno's theory proceeds from an understanding of this primitive quality of reality which seeks to counteract whatever aims either to repress this primitive aspect or to further those systems of domination set in place by this return to barbarism.

From this perspective, Adorno's writings on politics, philosophy, music and literature are a lifelong critique of the ways in which each tries to justify self-mutilation as the necessary price of self-preservation.

According to Adorno's translator Robert Hullot-Kentor, the central motive of Adorno's work thus consists in determining "how life could be more than the struggle for self-preservation".

Adorno, along with the other major Frankfurt School theorists Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse , argued that advanced capitalism had managed to contain or liquidate the forces that would bring about its collapse and that the revolutionary moment, when it would have been possible to transform it into socialism, had passed.

As he put it at the beginning of his Negative Dialectics , philosophy is still necessary because the time to realise it was missed.

Adorno argued that capitalism had become more entrenched through its attack on the objective basis of revolutionary consciousness and through liquidation of the individualism that had been the basis of critical consciousness.

Adorno, as well as Horkheimer, critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics.

Adorno and Horkheimer have been criticized for over-applying the term "positivism," especially in their interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper as positivists.

Adorno criticized jazz and popular music , viewing it as part of the culture industry , that contributes to the present sustainability of capitalism by rendering it "aesthetically pleasing" and "agreeable".

In his early essays for the Vienna-based journal Anbruch , Adorno claimed that musical progress is proportional to the composer's ability to constructively deal with the possibilities and limitations contained within what he called the "musical material.

The objective validity of composition, according to him, rests with neither the composer's genius nor the work's conformity with prior standards, but with the way in which the work coherently expresses the dialectic of the material.

In this sense, the contemporary absence of composers of the status of Bach or Beethoven is not the sign of musical regression; instead, new music is to be credited with laying bare aspects of the musical material previously repressed: The musical material's liberation from number, the harmonic series and tonal harmony.

Thus, historical progress is achieved only by the composer who "submits to the work and seemingly does not undertake anything active except to follow where it leads.

In the face of this radical liberation of the musical material, Adorno came to criticize those who, like Stravinsky, withdrew from this freedom by taking recourse to forms of the past as well as those who turned twelve-tone composition into a technique which dictated the rules of composition.

Adorno saw the culture industry as an arena in which critical tendencies or potentialities were eliminated. He argued that the culture industry, which produced and circulated cultural commodities through the mass media, manipulated the population.

Popular culture was identified as a reason why people become passive; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture made people docile and content, no matter how terrible their economic circumstances.

He wrote that "the same thing is offered to everybody by the standardized production of consumption goods" but this is concealed under "the manipulation of taste and the official culture's pretense of individualism".

Consumers purchase the illusion that every commodity or product is tailored to the individual's personal preference, by incorporating subtle modifications or inexpensive "add-ons" in order to keep the consumer returning for new purchases, and therefore more revenue for the corporation system.

Adorno conceptualized this phenomenon as pseudo-individualisation and the always-the-same. Adorno's analysis allowed for a critique of mass culture from the left which balanced the critique of popular culture from the right.

From both perspectives—left and right—the nature of cultural production was felt to be at the root of social and moral problems resulting from the consumption of culture.

However, while the critique from the right emphasized moral degeneracy ascribed to sexual and racial influences within popular culture, Adorno located the problem not with the content, but with the objective realities of the production of mass culture and its effects, e.

The latter has become a particularly productive, yet highly contested term in cultural studies. Many of Adorno's reflections on aesthetics and music have only just begun to be debated, as a collection of essays on the subject, many of which had not previously been translated into English, has only recently been collected and published as Essays on Music.

Adorno's work in the years before his death was shaped by the idea of "negative dialectics", set out especially in his book of that title.

A key notion in the work of the Frankfurt School since Dialectic of Enlightenment had been the idea of thought becoming an instrument of domination that subsumes all objects under the control of the dominant subject, especially through the notion of identity, i.

The institute was relocated to Columbia…. Like Lasswell, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno —69 and others adopted Freudian insights in their pioneering study The Authoritarian Personality , which used a item questionnaire to detect the susceptibility of individuals to fascist beliefs.

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Seine Studien über Husserls Phänomenologie hat er mit Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie überschrieben. In dem nur dürftig rezipierten Werk erörtert er das Verhältnis zwischen erkennendem Subjekt und zu erkennendem Objekt.

Aber ähnlich wie zur Metaphysik hat Adorno auch zur Moralphilosophie ein ambivalentes Verhältnis. Er kritisiert, dass die christlich-abendländische Moral den Individuen eine Verantwortung für ihre Handlungen abverlange und dabei eine Handlungsfreiheit unterstelle, die sie als soziale Wesen gar nicht haben.

Adorno weigert sich, Inhalt und Ziel einer emanzipierten Gesellschaft näher zu bestimmen. Adornos Verhältnis zur Metaphysik ist ambivalent.

Überlegungen zur Metaphysik ziehen sich durch sein ganzes Werk. Adornos Verständnis der Metaphysik hängt eng mit seinem Verständnis abendländischer Rationalität zusammen.

Das Ziel dieses Projektes ist es, dass der Mensch sich mittels seiner von der Kontingenz natürlicher Geschehnisse zu befreien versucht, um Herrschaft über sich und seine Umgebung zu erlangen.

Das metaphysische Denken richtet sich so gegen sein eigentliches Ziel, die rationale Selbstbestimmung und Freiheit des Menschen. Die Identitäten, die das Kontingente bewältigen sollen, beherrschen den, um dessen Freiheit willen sie gesucht worden sind.

Auch die Metaphysikkritik, deren Grundprogramm eigentlich die Befreiung des Subjekts von der Metaphysik ist, führt für Adorno letztlich nur zu dessen Unfreiheit.

Er setzt sich dabei vor allem mit der Philosophie Kants und dem Positivismus auseinander. Kants Philosophie wird von Adorno als Versuch interpretiert, aus der Metaphysikkritik heraus für die Freiheit des Menschen zu argumentieren.

Für Kant ist der Mensch dabei ein Wesen, das nur unter Einbeziehung seiner Sinne und seines Verstandes zu Erkenntnissen zu kommen vermag.

Der Mensch wird so in seinen Erkenntnismöglichkeiten als ein vollkommen festgelegtes und unfreies Wesen begriffen. Gegen die traditionelle Metaphysik und Metaphysikkritik will Adorno eine Metaphysik der Transzendenz rehabilitieren.

Da die Erkenntnis immer auf das Identische gerichtet ist, kann es vom Absoluten als Nichtidentischem keine Erkenntnis geben.

Das Subjekt erfährt seine eigene Ohnmacht, den Gegenstand der Erfahrung zu fassen zu bekommen. Metaphysische Erfahrungen sind für Adorno vor allem in der Kunst möglich.

Kunstwerke deuten auf Nichtidentisches hin, indem sie ihre Rezipienten zu einer bestimmten Verhaltensweise nötigen. Da ein Kunstwerk sich nicht einfach entziffern lässt, sind Rezipienten gezwungen, sich von den Strukturen des Kunstwerks leiten zu lassen.

Sie werden dadurch zu einer Praxis der Anverwandlung gedrängt, die Adorno Mimesis nennt. Die damit von den Kunstwerken eröffnete Erfahrung deutet auf etwas hin, das sich nicht identifizierend fassen lässt.

Den Okkultismus beurteilt er dagegen in Minima Moralia Nr. Er beschäftigte sich mit den Einzelwissenschaften, übte gleichwohl immanente Kritik an der Arbeitsteiligkeit, die immer mehr einzelne wissenschaftliche Disziplinen von der Philosophie abgespalten und zu gegeneinander abgegrenzten Fächern im Wissenschaftsbetrieb gemacht habe.

Reflexion über die gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen der wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsteilung machte ihn zum Kritiker des Positivismus , den er weiter fasste als allgemein üblich.

Im so genannten Positivismusstreit zwischen den Kritischen Rationalisten Popper und Albert auf der einen Seite und Vertretern der Frankfurter Schule auf der anderen Seite, der in den er Jahren um Methoden und Werturteile in den Sozialwissenschaften geführt wurde, war Adorno einer der Protagonisten.

Beiden wohne die Tendenz zur Liquidation des Individuums und alles Abweichenden inne, mit anderen Worten: die Beseitigung oder Unterwerfung des Nichtidentischen und Nichtverfügbaren.

Auf ein positives Wort wartete schon Thomas Mann vergebens. Was ist, was wäre das Rechte? Ihnen verdankte er Einsichten, an die er häufig anknüpfte.

Wiederholt zog er Freuds Schrift Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse zur triebdynamischen Erklärung des autoritären Charakters wie der Massengefolgschaft faschistischer Führer heran.

Mit seinem Vortrag Spätkapitalismus oder Industriegesellschaft eröffnete Adorno den Deutschen Soziologentag , der im Zeichen der Studentenbewegung und des Geburtstags von Karl Marx stand.

Adorno wurde die Durchführung eines Teilprojekts für den musikalischen Bereich übertragen. Adorno bewertete seine Erfahrungen als lehrreiche Auseinandersetzungen mit Sinn und Methoden der Sozialforschung sowie mit Radiomusik und Radiohörern.

In einem Brief vom Die von Adorno in den USA gemachten Erfahrungen mit der dort anders betriebenen Soziologie und Sozialforschung, vor allem seine Mitautorschaft an der Authoritarian Personality , bildeten die Grundlage dafür, dass er in Deutschland in den er und er Jahren als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der deutschen Soziologie anerkannt wurde.

Beigetragen haben dazu auch seine Beiträge zu dem bedeutendsten empirischen Nachkriegsprojekt des Instituts für Sozialforschung: das an die Fragestellungen der Authoritarian Personality anknüpfende Gruppenexperiment.

Unbeschadet dessen hielt er sich nicht zurück mit kritischen Erörterungen über die empirische Sozialforschung. Er hatte zunächst, unter Einbeziehung der aus den USA stammenden Methoden, für den Ausbau der empirischen Sozialforschung in Deutschland und die Verbindung von quantitativen mit qualitativen Verfahren wie Inhaltsanalyse und Gruppendiskussion votiert.

Adornos Schriften zur Ästhetik und Kulturkritik sind von den Schriften Walter Benjamins , mit dem er in regem Austausch stand, stark beeinflusst.

Angefangen vom Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels bis zum Passagen-Werk dienten sie Adorno als wichtige Inspirationsquellen. Der erkenntniskritischen Vorrede der Trauerspiel -Schrift entnahm Adorno die Anregung, eine spezifische Form des philosophischen Umgangs mit der Kunst zu entwickeln: Nicht begrifflich-deduktiv noch induktiv, sondern konfigurativ durch Anordnung der Phänomene in Konstellationen.

Eine überhistorische Definition der Kunst kann es für ihn nicht geben; alle Vorstellungen und Theoreme der Kunstphilosophie werden radikal historisiert.

Da das Kunstwerk noch nicht vollständig in die gesellschaftliche Totalität integriert ist, bildet es den archimedischen Punkt , von dem aus historische Erkenntnisse möglich werden.

Konsequenter als in seinen anderen Schriften setze Adorno hier seine Leitbegriffe als eine Vielzahl von Zentren ein, um die sich seine Reflexionen bildeten und die erst in der Konstellation zueinander ein Ganzes ergäben.

Kunstwerke sind in die herrschenden Produktionsverhältnisse eingebunden und als Produkte gesellschaftlicher Arbeit GS 7: auch verkäufliche Waren.

Autonomie verkörpere das Kunstwerk darin, dass es allein seinem eigenen Formgesetz gehorche. Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft , die verstreut publizierte Arbeiten aus den Jahren bis versammelt und erstmals im Suhrkamp Verlag erschien.

Eine erneute polemische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Jazz : Zeitlose Mode. Das apodiktisch formulierte Verdikt erlangte wie kaum eine andere Aussage zur Gegenwartsliteratur eine solche Bekanntheit, dass sie über Jahrzehnte hinweg kontrovers diskutiert wurde und Adorno zu mehrfachen Erklärungen und Modifikationen motivierte, ohne dass er die zentrale Botschaft über das schmähliche Versagen der Kultur angesichts Auschwitz zurücknahm.

Dazu gehören, neben seinen weit über die Kreise der kritischen Pädagogik hinaus aufgenommenen Vorträge Was bedeutet: Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit [] und Erziehung nach Auschwitz , Fragen zu Sexualtabus heute, Fernsehkonsum, Lehrerausbildung etc.

Im Gegensatz zur authentischen Kunst, die die Widersprüche des gesellschaftlichen Systems wenigstens zum Sprechen bringe und ein Bewusstsein radikaler Veränderung aufrechterhalte, würden die Produkte der Kulturindustrie den Menschen das Verlangen nach Selbsterkenntnis und Selbstbestimmung austreiben.

Jürgen Habermas hat in einem Vortrag über jüdische Remigranten auf eine andere Seite des Gesellschaftskritikers Adorno aufmerksam gemacht.

Die vorgesehene zweibändige Publikation kam nicht zustande. Aus diesem Fundus stammt die Einzelveröffentlichung Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus , [] [] die einen im April auf Einladung des Verbands Sozialistischer Studenten Österreichs an der Wiener Universität gehaltenen Vortrag enthält.

Im Herbst erschien ein von Michael Schwarz herausgegebener Sammelband mit nach Tonbandaufnahmen und Abschriften rekonstruierten Vorträgen , der jedoch neben bildungspolitischen auch kultur- und musikkritische Vorträge enthält.

Dass die musikalischen mit den philosophischen Schriften Adornos eng verzahnt sind, bringt der Autor bereits in seiner ersten Buchveröffentlichung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, der Philosophie der neuen Musik , zum Ausdruck.

Zum Verständnis von Musik tragen nach Adorno sowohl sinnliches Erleben — in seinem Verständnis: mimetischer Nachvollzug durch Hören, Darstellen und Aufführen — als auch die begriffliche Reflexion bei.

In seinem frühen Aufsatz von — Zur gesellschaftlichen Lage der Musik — befindet er, dass alle Musik das Zeichen der Entfremdung trage und als Ware fungiere.

Über ihre Authentizität entscheide, ob sie sich Marktbedingungen widersetze oder unterwerfe. Zu den umstrittensten Themen seiner musikalischen Schriften zählen sein Verdikt über den Jazz und seine These vom Materialfortschritt in der Musik.

Martin Jay verweist darauf, dass Adorno den Jazz noch nicht aus erster Hand kannte. Die Vorgeformtheit des musikalischen Materials verleihe ihm einen Eigensinn und stelle Anforderungen an die kompositorische Arbeit, die gleichwohl die Spontaneität des Subjekts verlange.

Das blieb bei ihm als offene Dialektik stehen. Gespielt wurde der Komponist Adorno vor gelegentlich, erst seit den fünfziger Jahren etwas häufiger.

Die Sängerin Carla Henius hat sich sehr für sein Schaffen eingesetzt; mit ihr trat er manchmal auch gemeinsam auf. Frühe Streichquartette wurden vom Neuen Leipziger Streichquartett , Streichtrios vom Freiburger trio recherche uraufgeführt.

Unter dem schwachen Echo, das seine Kompositionen fanden, hat Adorno gelitten. Das hatte Auswirkungen: Sein Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Soziologie wurde nach seinem Tod aufgeteilt und mit Wissenschaftlern besetzt, die teils entgegengesetzte Positionen vertraten.

Das Institut für Sozialforschung wurde damit zu einem vorwiegend empirisch ausgerichteten Forschungsinstitut unter der Geschäftsführung Ludwig von Friedeburgs und Gerhard Brandts.

Dies und der Rundfunkvortrag Erziehung zur Mündigkeit sowie Kritik an Denkschulen Jargon der Eigentlichkeit lassen den Schluss zu, dass Adorno kein Meister für seine Schüler sein, sondern eher das selbstständige, kritische Denken befördern wollte.

Die Stadt Frankfurt stiftete den Theodor-W. Adorno Archiv gegründet, in dem der wissenschaftliche und künstlerische Nachlass Adornos mit dem Nachlass Walter Benjamins vereinigt werden konnte.

Adorno Archiv wieder ausgegliedert und in der Archivabteilung der Berliner Akademie der Künste deponiert; der Adorno-Nachlass befindet sich inzwischen im Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung.

Zum An seinem vormaligen Wohnhaus im Kettenhofweg im Frankfurter Westend, in dem Adorno von bis lebte, erinnert eine Gedenktafel an sein Wirken.

Das Denkmal wurde [] , der Platzname bereits an den Campus Westend verlegt. Wenn jegliche Vernunft als korrumpierte kritisiert werde, stelle sich die Frage nach dem Ort dieser Vernunftkritik.

Konträre Positionen zu Adornos Wissenschaftsverständnis bezogen die Vertreter des Kritischen Rationalismus wie Karl Raimund Popper und Hans Albert sowie zahlreiche Vertreter der Mainstream-Soziologie, die sich als Erfahrungswissenschaftler verstanden oder der quantitativ orientierten empirischen Sozialforschung zurechneten.

Ralf Dahrendorf vertrat im so genannten Positivismusstreit eine eigene Position zwischen den Kontrahenten, die aber dem Denken Poppers näher stand als dem der Frankfurter Schule.

Die musiktheoretische Position Adornos wurde bereits vor der Postmoderne in Frage gestellt. Philosophiebibliographie: Theodor W. Adorno — Zusätzliche Literaturhinweise zum Thema.

Seit werden vom Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung und dem Suhrkamp Verlag jährlich stattfindenden Adorno-Vorlesungen an der Frankfurter Universität veranstaltet.

Die Preisträger widmen sich heutigen Möglichkeiten kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie als Philosophen, Soziologen, Historiker, Kunsthistoriker, Politologen und Literaturwissenschaftler von internationalem Rang.

Die von Rolf Tiedemann hrsgg. Adorno ist eine Weiterleitung auf diesen Artikel. Weitere Bedeutungen sind unter Adorno Begriffsklärung aufgeführt.

Clemens Albrecht, Günter C. Tenbruck: Die intellektuelle Gründung der Bundesrepublik. Eine Wirkungsanalyse der Frankfurter Schule. Campus, Frankfurt am Main , S.

Siehe auch die auf S. Fink, München , S. Hinzu kommen mehr als Auftritte vor Präsenzpublikum. Man konnte Adorno also fast jede Woche irgendwo hören.

Adorno am Mikrophon. Online-Ausgabe 8 , Heft 2, S. Abgerufen am April Adorno: Briefe an die Eltern. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main , S.

Siehe: Ein Sohn aus gutem Hause. Ausgabe 3—4, , S. Adorno: Briefe an die Eltern — Beck, München , S. Eine Biographie. In: Stefan Müller-Doohm Hrsg.

Erinnerungen von Zeitgenossen. Theodor Adornos Briefe an die Eltern. In: Mittelweg Adorno in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg , S.

Eine politische Biographie. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München , S. Eine Einführung. Reclam, Ditzingen , S. Adorno zur Einführung Junius, Hamburg , S.

Frankfurt am Main , S. Adorno Archiv: Adorno. Eine Bildmonogrphie. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main , S. Referate eines Symposiums der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung vom Dezember in Ludwigsburg.

Wie sich eine Sehnsuchtslandschaft in Philosophie verwandelt. Siedler, München Vernunftkritik nach Adorno. Detaillierter dazu Stefan Müller-Doohm: Adorno.

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