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
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.
writing poetry auschwitz
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
mean comeback insult
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
art suffering world
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.
art relation inner-life
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
lasts emotion tautology
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
love love-is romance
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
echoes no-love
There is no love that is not an echo.
animal thinking holocaust
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
running positivity being-positive
Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.
psychology horror
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
psychology horror
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
needs prophet
There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.