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
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.
law form heresy
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy
art order tasks
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
auschwitz
There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.
past betrayed doe
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
art reality becoming
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
choices hardest-hit hardest
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
objectivity suffering needs
The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject
art world rational
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
world enough
Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.
dream reality differences
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
lying believe reality
The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
lying silence doe
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
history doe language
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.