Theodor Adorno cytaty

Theodor W. Adorno, właściwie Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund – niemiecki filozof, socjolog, teoretyk muzyki i kompozytor. Był jednym z czołowych przedstawicieli „szkoły frankfurckiej” i współpracownikiem Institut für Sozialforschung, współtwórca teorii krytycznej.

Już jako młody krytyk muzyczny i socjolog-amator Adorno był przede wszystkim filozofem. Etykietka „filozofa społecznego” podkreśla krytyczny charakter jego myślenia filozoficznego, które od 1945 r. zajmuje ważne miejsce w teorii krytycznej szkoły frankfurckiej. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Wrzesień 1903 – 6. Sierpień 1969   •   Natępne imiona Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno
Theodor Adorno Fotografia

Dzieło

Minima Moralia
Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno: 103   Cytaty 0   Polubień

Theodor Adorno słynne cytaty

„Całość jest nieprawdą.”

Minima Moralia, Refleksje z poharatanego życia

Theodor Adorno cytaty

„Pisanie wierszy po Oświęcimiu jest barbarzyństwem.”

Źródło: Prismen. Kulturkritik und Gesselschaft (1951)

„To, co naziści zrobili Żydom, było nie do wypowiedzenia, ale przecież trzeba znaleźć wyraz, jeżeli ofiar, których i tak jest za dużo, by wspominać ich imiona, nie chce się wydać na przekleństwo zapomnienia. Toteż w angielszczyźnie ukuto pojęcie genocide.”

Ale przez kodyfikację, zapisaną w międzynarodowej deklaracji praw człowieka, to, co nie do wypowiedzenia, zostało zarazem – w imię protestu – uwspółmiernione. Przez podniesienie do rangi pojęcia uznana zostaje niejako możliwość: instytucja, którą się obkłada zakazem, odrzuca, dyskutuje.
Minima Moralia, Refleksje z poharatanego życia

Theodor Adorno: Cytaty po angielsku

“Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.”

Section 10
Culture Industry Reconsidered (1963)
Kontekst: The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

“There is no right life in the wrong one.”

Źródło: Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

“Regressive listeners behave like children. Again and again and with stubborn malice, they demand the one dish they have once been served.”

Źródło: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 290

“The occupation with things of the mind has by now itself become “practical,” a business with strict division of labor, departments and restricted entry. The man of independent means who chooses it out of repugnance for the ignominy of earning money will not be disposed to acknowledge the fact. For this he is punished. He … is ranked in the competitive hierarchy as a dilettante no matter how well he knows his subject, and must, if he wants to make a career, show himself even more resolutely blinkered than the most inveterate specialist. The urge to suspend the division of labor which, within certain limits, his economic situation enables him to satisfy, is thought particularly disreputable: it betrays a disinclination to sanction the operations imposed by society, and domineering competence permits no such idiosyncrasies. The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract. It performs this task all the more reliably since anyone who repudiates this division of labor—if only by taking pleasure in his work—makes himself vulnerable by its standards, in ways inseparable from elements of his superiority.”

Theodor W. Adorno książka Minima Moralia

E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 1
Minima Moralia (1951)
Kontekst: The son of well-to-do parents who … engages in a so-called intellectual profession, as an artist or a scholar, will have a particularly difficult time with those bearing the distasteful title of colleagues. It is not merely that his independence is envied, the seriousness of his intentions mistrusted, that he is suspected of being a secret envoy of the established powers. … The real resistance lies elsewhere. The occupation with things of the mind has by now itself become “practical,” a business with strict division of labor, departments and restricted entry. The man of independent means who chooses it out of repugnance for the ignominy of earning money will not be disposed to acknowledge the fact. For this he is punished. He … is ranked in the competitive hierarchy as a dilettante no matter how well he knows his subject, and must, if he wants to make a career, show himself even more resolutely blinkered than the most inveterate specialist. The urge to suspend the division of labor which, within certain limits, his economic situation enables him to satisfy, is thought particularly disreputable: it betrays a disinclination to sanction the operations imposed by society, and domineering competence permits no such idiosyncrasies. The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract. It performs this task all the more reliably since anyone who repudiates this division of labor—if only by taking pleasure in his work—makes himself vulnerable by its standards, in ways inseparable from elements of his superiority. Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game.

“The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. The order that springs from it is never confronted with what it claims to be or with the real interests of human beings.”

Section 14
Culture Industry Reconsidered (1963)
Kontekst: The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. The order that springs from it is never confronted with what it claims to be or with the real interests of human beings. Order, however, is not good in itself. It would be so only as a good order. The fact that the culture industry is oblivious to this and extols order in abstracto, bears witness to the impotence and untruth of the messages it conveys. While it claims to lead the perplexed, it deludes them with false conflicts which they are to exchange for their own. It solves conflicts for them only in appearance, in a way that they can hardly be solved in their real lives.

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

Theodor W. Adorno książka Minima Moralia

Kunst ist Magie, befreit von der Lüge, Wahrheit zu sein.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 143
Minima Moralia (1951)

“Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.”

Furchtbares hat die Menschheit sich antun müssen, bis das Selbst, der identische, zweckgerichtete, männliche Charakter des Menschen geschaffen war, und etwas davon wird noch in jeder Kindheit wiederholt.
E. Jephcott, trans., p. 26
Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment] (1944)

“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”

Theodor W. Adorno książka Minima Moralia

Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)

Podobni autorzy

Hannah Arendt Fotografia
Hannah Arendt 16
amerykańska teoretyk polityki, filozof i publicystka
Erich Fromm Fotografia
Erich Fromm 66
amerykański filozof, psycholog i psychoanalityk
Zygmunt Bauman Fotografia
Zygmunt Bauman 58
polski socjolog, filozof, eseista
Bertolt Brecht Fotografia
Bertolt Brecht 49
niemiecki pisarz, dramaturg, teoretyk teatru, inscenizator …
Martin Heidegger Fotografia
Martin Heidegger 20
filozof niemiecki
Edith Stein Fotografia
Edith Stein 16
zakonnica niemiecka, filozof, święta Kościoła katolickiego
Werner Heisenberg Fotografia
Werner Heisenberg 9
fizyk niemiecki
Emil Cioran Fotografia
Emil Cioran 73
pisarz pochodzenia rumuńskiego
Albert Einstein Fotografia
Albert Einstein 166
fizyk niemiecki, noblista
Albert Schweitzer Fotografia
Albert Schweitzer 22
niemiecki teolog luterański, noblista w dziedzinie pokoju