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
animals auschwitz begins looks wherever
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
circles numbers keys
As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers
molotov-cocktail people trying
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
echoes no-love
There is no love that is not an echo.
people stronger stills
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.
moral consideration parsimony
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
art order design
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
categories modernity qualitative
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
firsts principles ethics
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
black-and-white choices would-be
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
personality tolerance mark
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
empathy imitating-others imitation
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
history doe language
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
principles fascism domination
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.