In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
Theodor W. AdornoArt is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
Theodor W. AdornoTag: philosophy aesthetics
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
Theodor W. AdornoTag: philosophy aesthetics
Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the world is itself crippled by resignation before reality, and becomes a defeatism of reason after the transformation of the world failed. It guarantees no place from which theory as such could be concretely convicted of the anachronism, which then as now it is suspected of. Perhaps the interpretation which promised the transition did not suffice. The moment on which the critique of theory depended is not to be prolonged theoretically. Praxis, delayed for the foreseeable future, is no longer the court of appeals against self-satisfied speculation, but for the most part the pretext under which executives strangulate that critical thought as idle which a transforming praxis most needs. After philosophy broke with the promise that it would be one with reality or at least struck just before the hour of its production, it has been compelled to ruthlessly criticize itself.
Theodor W. AdornoTag: philosophy
Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.
Theodor W. AdornoOf the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.
Theodor W. AdornoThe need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth
Theodor W. AdornoOne must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
Theodor W. AdornoPleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance.
Theodor W. AdornoEven the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.
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