1920 enlaces miscelaneos
Enlaces misceláneos
Theodor Adorno
- Lambert Zuidervaart, 2019?, Theodor W. Adorno: Exposing capitalism’s blind domination, TLS, en: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/theodor-adorno-footnotes-to-plato/ | accessed 14/12/2019
____ Minima Moralia (1951), Theodor W. Adorno’s book of aphorisms, bears the telling subtitle Reflections from damaged life. [...]
____ Founded in 1923 as an independent centre for interdisciplinary Marxist scholarship and led after 1930 by its director Max Horkheimer, the Institute included the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, literary sociologist Leo Löwenthal, social psychologist Erich Fromm, and other scholars in economics and political theory. In the 1930s they developed an interdisciplinary research programme called critical theory.
____ Adorno expanded and deepened this argument in Dialectic of Enlightenment, the groundbreaking book he co-wrote with Horkheimer during the Second World War, by which time both had moved from New York to southern California. In it, they set out to explain why a world with so much potential for good had become so unrelentingly bad, why the dawn of enlightenment had become the nightmare of fascism, why the social promise of happiness had been broken. Interweaving philosophy, literary commentary and social critique, they tried to show that reason, the purported agency of enlightenment, had become irrational. Whereas the purpose of reason was to liberate people, it had instead served to trap them in patterns of blind domination. By not serving its own purpose, and instead serving as a tool for domination, reason had become irrational. According to Horkheimer and Adorno, blind domination occurs in three tightly interlinked forms: human subjugation of nature, psychological repression and social exploitation. What drives all three forms in contemporary society is an ever-expanding capitalist economy, wedded to massive state power, and fed by the latest science and technology.
Walter Benjamin
- Samantha Rose Hill, 2019, Walter Benjamin's Last Work, Los Angeles Review of Books, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/walter-benjamins-last-work/ | accessed 14/12/2019
____ On the Thesis on the Philosophy of History, and various friendships, including Arendt, Adorno...
- Colin Dickey, 2014, Shoring Against the Ruins, Los Angeles Review of Books, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/shoring-ruins/ | accessed 14/12/2019
____ Good review of WB's biography by Eiland and Jennings, 2014, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
