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
Theodor Adorno quotes about
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.
art order design
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
psychology horror
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
revenge mind criticism
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
integrating lost
He who integrates is lost.
revenge stupidity wish
The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
hygiene irrelevance dying
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.
true-life
There is no true life within a false life.
jargon determined individual
What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.
sublime steps ridiculous
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.
underdog splendid ends
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
culture demand trouble
In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.
division-of-labor errors derivatives
The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.