Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
Theodor W. Adornowas a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 September 1903
CountryGermany
violence doe enough
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
world stage
All the world's not a stage.
philosophy concepts bargains
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
philosophy acquiescence way
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.
numbers enlightenment doe
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.
blessing facts doe
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.
secret world culture
The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.
distance two people
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
people purpose awareness
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
philosophy real practice
Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.
talent rage
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
analysis psycho exaggeration
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
tasks powerlessness
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
taken heart successful
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.