Adorno’s thought is redemptive in nature.Adorno combines Benjamin’s view of religious redemption and Marx’s view of technical salvation,and sees art as an important way of human salvation.Adorno considers history a...
Adorno believes that music is the most important art form and a typical artistic language.Music is pure,logical and linguistic.Music is an expression,i.e.,the vocalization of the unidentical things that are repressed....
The article aims to discuss the theme of Adorno's non-identical moral philosophy,particularly the primacy of individual life over moral laws,as based mainly on his key works like Minima Moralia:Reflections from Damage...
As one of the central figures in the Frankfurt school.Theodor W.Adorno thinks the rise of culture industry is resulting from increased rationalization and standardization within the society.The culture industry is an ...
This paper explores the contemporary relevance of dialectical thought in the context of a number of common contemporary critiques of the practice.Against the common claim made against dialectical thought that it someh...
In the context of his thoughts on the relationship between music and time in his Musical Writings, Adorno refers often to the above quoted thesis. This paradoxicality, attributed to particular symphonies of Beethoven,...
The critical nature of artwork is owed, according to Adorno, to the fact that it opposes its assimilation by reason and that it does not yield to the imposition of its established principles. This character which Heid...
In the first part, the concept of instrumental reason is defended. Although we live in the age of pluralism, in which a tendency prevails to put all types of rationality on the same plane, there is a rationality that ...
Adorno suggests that art is an essentially expressive language since it is the imitation of natural language. Adorno's language thought is derived from Benjamin's extensive language theory in which Benjamin claims t...