One of Adorno’s themes was civilization’s tendency to self-destruction, as evinced (prove, demonstrate) by Fascism. In their widely influential book Dialektik der Aufklärung (1947; Dialectic of Enlightenment),
Adorno located this impulse in the concept of reason
itself, which the Enlightenment and modern scientific thought had
transformed into an irrational force that had come to dominate not only
nature but humanity itself. The rationalization of human society had
ultimately led to Fascism and other totalitarian regimes that
represented a complete negation of human freedom. Adorno concluded that rationalism
offers little hope for human emancipation, which might come instead
from art and the prospects it offers for preserving individual autonomy and happiness. Adorno’s other major publications are The Authoritarian Personality (1950), Negative Dialektik (1966; Negative Dialectics), and Ästhetische Theorie (1970; “Aesthetic Theory”).
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
A human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. * si acaso; if at all (possibly not at all).
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
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.
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
A human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. * si acaso; if at all (possibly not at all).
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
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.
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.
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