“are all so mixed up together that all productive work and even sensible thought are scarcely possible any more.”
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Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a c…
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culture · German philosopher, sociologist, and theorist (1903–1969) · philosopher · composer · musicologist · sociologist · university teacher · literary critic · music critic · aphorist · pianist · writer · also Theodor W. Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, Teodor V. Adorno, Theodore W. Adorno
Born 11 September 1903 · Died 6 August 1969 · Q152388
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2026· 7 entries
“world of torture that had begun in Auschwitz.”
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“Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream”
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“simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today”
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“heard while the listener is walking around or lying in bed is very likely to differ from its effect in a concert hall where people sit as if they were in church.”
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“is indeed not capable of producing or grasping the totality of the real, but it may be possible to penetrate the detail, to explode in miniature the mass of merely existing reality.”
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“s notion of the unconscious serves as a”
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2010· 1 entry
Times Higher Education: Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction
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2008· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Schönberg / Adorno”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Works for String Quartet”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Kompositionen”.
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1969· 17 entries
Died 1969-08-06.
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“O amor é a capacidade de perceber o semelhante no dessemelhante.”
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“Subiektywna świadomość, dla której sprzeczność jest czymś nieznośnym, musi dokonać rozpaczliwego wyboru. Musi albo sprzeczny z nią bieg świata wystylizować na harmonię i, wbrew lepszemu jego rozumieniu, być mu heteronomicznie posłuszną; albo też, w zaciętej wierności własnemu określeniu, zachowywać się tak, jak gdyby nie było żadnego biegu świata, i tym samym ginąć.”
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“Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben ist barbarisch. (niem.)”
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“(…) to realność powinna naśladować dzieła sztuki. To wszakże, iż dzieła sztuki są, wskazuje, że to, co nieistniejące, mogłoby być (…). To, ku czemu zmierza tęsknota w dziełach sztuki – rzeczywistość tego, czego nie ma – zmienia się w jej przypomnienie.”
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“Niewątpliwie od szkolnych reguł do sądu estetycznego nie prowadzi żadna linia ciągła, ale nawet nieciągłość drogi podlega pewnemu przymusowi: najwyższe pytania o prawdę dzieła można przełożyć na kategorie jego koherencji.”
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“Doświadczenie artystyczne jest autonomiczne jedynie tam, gdzie odrzuca delektujący się smak.”
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“Dezintegracja mieści się w głębi integracji i prześwieca przez nią. Całość wszakże, im więcej aprobuje z detalu, tym bardziej staje się ze swej strony niejako detalem, momentem pośród wielu innych, szczegółem. Pragnienia zagłady w detalu przenosi się na całość.”
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Twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic as a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, par
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“(…) czas w muzyce jest wyraźnie rozpoznawalny, ale od empirycznego tak odległy, że przy skoncentrowanym słuchaniu wydarzenia zachodzące w czasie poza kontinuum muzycznym pozostają wobec niego zewnętrzne, niemal go nie dotykają (…).”
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“Senhoras e senhores, tenho a impressão de que mais uma vez o ar-condicionado não funciona. Não sei se concordam com esta opinião. Se concordam, eu agradeceria muito se alguém procurasse a administração para comunicar a situação. A concentração intelectual em dia quente como hoje é realmente uma tarefa muito difícil. Praticamente impossível.”
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“Para a felicidade se aplica o mesmo que para a verdade. Alguém não a tem, mas está nela.”
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“When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.”
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“Jako artysta Schönberg przywraca ludziom wolność sztuki. Kompozytor-dialektyk unieruchamia dialektykę.”
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“Antyartystyczne dzieło sztuki jest czymś zbliżonym do aktu poznania. Muzyka Schönberga krąży wokół poznania; właśnie to zawsze gorszyło ludzi bardziej niż dysonanse: stąd narzekania na intelektualizm.”
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“En virtud de la ideología de la industria cultural, el conformismo sustituye a la autonomía y a la conciencia; jamas el orden que surge de esto es confrontado con lo que pretende ser, o con los intereses reales de los hombres.”
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“O humano estabelece-se na imitação: um homem torna-se um homem apenas imitando outros homens.”
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1966· 1 entry
After which, during the summer semester of 1967 and the winter semester of 1967–68, he offered regular philosophy seminars to discuss the book chapter by chapter
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (1963).
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Adorno was elected to the post of chairman of the German Sociological Society, where he presided over two important conferences: in 1964, on "Max Weber and Sociology" and in 1968, on "Late Capitalism or Industrial Societ
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1962· 2 entries
“expresses in negative form the impulse which inspires committed literature”
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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
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1961· 1 entry
By Adorno and Karl Popper, later published as the Positivist Dispute in German Sociology, arose out of disagreements at the 1959 14th German Sociology Conference in Berlin
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1959· 1 entry
“Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit”
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1955· 1 entry
“On the Relationship between Sociology and Psychology”
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1952· 1 entry
Adorno participated in a group experiment, revealing residual National Socialist attitudes among the recently democratized Germans
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1951· 1 entry
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 are
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1941· 1 entry
The situation of the émigrés, now classed "enemy aliens", became increasingly restricted
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1939· 1 entry
As "Fragments on Wagner"), drafts of which he read to Benjamin during their final meeting, in December on the Italian Riviera
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1938· 1 entry
“On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening”
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1932· 2 entries
“The Social Situation of Music”
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“the irrationality of society has reached a point where only the gloomiest predictions have any plausibility.”
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1931· 1 entry
In which he postulated, "only dialectically does philosophical interpretation seem possible to me" (Gesammelte Schriften 1: 338)
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1927· 1 entry
“the healing of all neuroses is synonymous with the complete understanding of the meaning of their symptoms by the patient.”
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1924· 1 entry
“can be built if no community desires one.”
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-09-11.
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