other day in the Yemeni newspaper Al-Sabah (06/05/2006), of me from the Arabic
critique of enlightened thinking
Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) had been from youth to various interests in relation to literature, art and philosophy, but philosophy and music ruled him out during Despite its reputation as a philosopher of the Frankfurt School critical. Some say that his achievements in music and literary criticism are greater than in his philosophical works, especially his essays on Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Schoenberg, Kafka and Walter Benjamin. For Adorno, a compound led to music through his mother, who was of Italian descent and opera singer. Adorno's family was wealthy, which gave him the opportunity to make music in the field of his dreams. He has already received from an early music lessons. He studied philosophy, until he became in 1924 the doctorate with a dissertation on the philosopher Edmund Husserl.
then increased his interest in philosophy much, until he in 1931 with a thesis on the philosopher Kierkegaard was a professor. At that time he began to approach a number of important thinkers, such as the social scientists Max Horkheimer, the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, the literary critic Walter Benjamin and the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, all were with him later the so-called Frankfurt School. There have been intensive efforts to advance the philosophy on the way, they practically and directly connect with the sociology and psychoanalysis. The Frankfurt group began to work on the development of critical Marxist theory, which refers to the contemporary society. This company initiated before Carl Grünberg, a professor of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, which later became the Frankfurt School. The rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany had a negative impact on the school and its thinkers, they have a number of them forced to flee abroad. They traveled to Geneva and from there to the United States. In this phase, Adorno and Horkheimer worked on the drafting of the book "Dialectic of Enlightenment" that the questions raised in the bitter war, tried to give an answer.
fit together as the war with the civilized humanity, and why did humanity with the war behind the Age of Enlightenment? Later the book was the main source of the critical Frankfurt School. Adorno showed that the Enlightenment, as Kant said, the work of the understanding that they are but transformed by the liberation of man from superstition and myth into a prey to the forces of the market and society, to abolish the individual and in a cog in the great production machine transform.
Adorno criticized the philosophy of the Enlightenment arose because fascism and Nazism in the heart of enlightened Europe and brought the world to disaster. This would indicate that the primitive backwardness and barbarism is a seed that fortwese on enlightened European soil. This had happened because the mind has turned into a tool in the hands of the economic benefit. Adorno inquired after his return to Germany after the democratic values and the reasons for the emergence of the authoritarian personality and blind faith in a single leader. Adorno focused on the question of how could it be possible to modern man to oppose the tyrannical power of the society without losing their freedom and individuality. It is noteworthy that the pessimistic view prevails about the future of mankind in thinking of Adorno. This was he published in his book "Negative Dialectics", in which he points out that man comes from the lack of culture and return to it and that history will not evolve from barbarism towards humanity, but rather on the spin down to the atomic bomb .
In the 50s and 60s of the 20th Adorno century reached the peak of his fame and its effects. He criticized the decline of culture and its transformation into a commodity product and violent. In the 60s of thousands of students came to the Frankfurt school to attend the lectures of Adorno, the "no" uttered in the face of the power of controlling the market.
Nevertheless, he maintained a negative attitude toward the student protests in Europe in the late 60s, he looked at them as works of the mob. Finally, it should be noted that some German researchers the context that Adorno between cultural theory and the social sciences tracked See, remains as given, and that developments confirm the last 30 years the accuracy of his critical views, as well as his original interpretation of the culture industry . The culture is now actually become the industry which only produces what the mass consumed.
Adorno so in the cultural part of a Yemeni newspaper. The reception is somewhat idiosyncratic, and perhaps as much as one might think the author benefit from the awkwardness of the description is also partly the rigors of the sacred Arabic conserved due.
interesting course, is that Auschwitz and Adorno's categorical imperative are not mentioned.
interesting and for the Arab cultural space is also quite strange that his father is not mentioned. Obviously the author did neither with anti-Semitism in general, nor deal with the "Jewish side" Adorno in particular. Why a number of thinkers of the critical school of the Nazis, was forced into exile, to the uninitiated it remains a mystery.
interesting and probably with the said Taboo on anti-Semitism is connected third, that Adorno's (non) relationship to God is not mentioned, a fact that should prove of interest to the Arabic reader.
What was the motivation of the unknown writer? Sad assumption: Adorno's evidence against the decadence of the cultural ...
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