Tag: Adorno

  • Reposting Bonjourno, Adorno

    I’ve recently read Adorno’s publication, The Authoritarian Personality, and I share my perspective and thoughts. This study was performed post-World … Bonjourno, Adorno x

  • Adorno on Pleasure: The Critique of Psychoanalysis

    Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Moralia to a … Adorno on Pleasure: The Critique of Psychoanalysis ———- A mix of critique and psychoanalysis. Interestingly enough, I finally read Walter Benjamin’s “art in the age of mechanical reproduction”. I never realized…

  • Theodor Adorno and Our Enslavement to Commodity Fetishism

    Theodor Adorno is probably the most important 20th century Marxist philosopher, sociologist, and social critic.  The fundamental crux of Adorno is … Theodor Adorno and Our Enslavement to Commodity Fetishism To The Doctor who asked me to make sure people know that I am posting another person’s blog (she thought I was trying to take credit…

  • Critical Theory and Philosophy, revisited.

    I tend to conflate critical theory with critical thinking. I think the philosophers or theorists or authors who came up with the term “critical theory” for what they were doing, or for some class of social comment, was simply extending philosophical motion and applying it to ideology as though ideology was something separate from the…