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
inspirational play self
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
categories modernity qualitative
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
art emotional effort
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts...
psychology horror
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
moral categories
Intelligence is a moral category.
fear self abandonment
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
firsts principles ethics
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
men earth enlightened
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
evil-people people evil
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
art crime uncommitted
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
black-and-white choices would-be
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
life life-changing wrong-life
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
health sickness health-care
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
underdog splendid ends
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.