'''Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund [[Image:Adorno''' (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist and composer. He was a member of the [[Frankfurt Schooljpg|right|240px]] along with [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Walter Benjamin]], [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Jürgen Habermas]] and others.
Already as '''Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno''' ([[September 11]], 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a young music critic and amateur [[German]] [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]], Theodor Wmusicologist and composer. Adorno He was primarily a philosophical thinkermember of the [[Frankfurt School]] along with [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Walter Benjamin]], [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Jürgen Habermas]] and [[others]].==Slavoj Žižek==Further information [[about]] [[Theodor Adorno]] can be found in the following reference(s):* [[Slavoj Žižek|Žižek, Slavoj]]. [[The Ticklish Subject|The label Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]. [[London]]: Verso, 1999. : break with [[Habermas]] - p. 347: 'social philosopher' emphasizes the socially critical aspect [[Dialectic]] of his philosophical thinking[[Enlightenment]]'' (with [[Horkheimer]]) - pp. 10, which from 46, 359: ''[[Negative]] Dialectics'' - p. 89: ''[[945 onwards took an intellectually prominent position in Philosophy]] of the New [[critical theory (Frankfurt School)|critical theoryMusic]] '' - p. 250 : sphere of the Frankfurt School'' Kulturindustrie'' - p. 358 : violin versus piano - pp.101-2
* {{Z}} ''[[The Fragile Absolute|The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For]].'' London and New York: Verso, 2000. p. 105
* {{Z}} ''[[Tarrying with the Negative|Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel and the Critique of Ideology]]''. Durham: Duke [[University]] Press, 1993. p. 242 n. 19
* {{Z}} ''[[Looking Awry|Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture]]''. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. p. 142
=Intrumental Reason=
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"What we need today is not the passage from the 'critique of political economy' to the transcendental-ontological 'critique of instrumental reason', but a return to the 'critique of political economy' that would reveal how the standard Communit project was ''utopian'' precisely in so far as it was not ''radical enough'' - in so far as, in it, the fundamental capitalist thrust of unleashed productivity survived, deprived of its concrete contradictory conditions of existence. The insufficiency of [[Heidegger]], [[Adorno]] and [[Horkheimer]], and so on, lies in thier abandonment of the concrete social analysis of capitalism: in their very critique or overcoming of MArx, they in a way ''repeat'' Marx's mistake - like Marx, they perceive unbridled producitvity as something that is ultimately ''independent'' of he concrete capitalist social formation. Capitalism and Communism are not two different historical realizations, two species, of 'instrumental reason' - instrumental reason ''as such'' is capitalist, grounded in capitalistrelations; and 'actually existing Socialism' failed because it was ultimately a subspecies of capitalism, an ideological attempt to 'have one's cake and eat it', to break out of capitalism while retaining its key ingredient.<ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso. p. 18</ref></blockquote>
==Late Capitalism==
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Back in the 1940s, Theodor Adorno pointed out how, in the [[late capitalism|late capitalist]] '[[administered world]]', the classical [[Freud]]ian notion of the [[ego]] as the mediating agency between the two extremes, the inner [[drive]]s of the [[id]] and the external social constraints of the superego]], is no longer operative: what we encounter in today's so-called [[narcissistic]] [[personality]] is a direct pact between superego and id at the expense of the ego. The basic lesson of the so-called '[[totalitarianism]]s' is that the social powers represented in superego pressure directly manipulate the [[subject]]'s [[obscene]] drives, bypassing the [[autonomous]] rational [[agency]] of the ego.<ref>[[Žižek, Slavoj]]. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso. p.61-2</ref></blockquote>
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"Theodor Adorno claimed that what we are getting in the contemporary “administered world” and its “repressive desublimation” is no longer the old logic of social authority’s repression of the Id (the individual’s illicit aggressive drives). Rather, we have a perverse pact between the punitive Superego’s legally sanctioned social authority and the Id’s illicit aggressive drives at the expense of the Ego’s rationality."<ref>[[Žižek, Slavoj]]. [[Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves]]: Against enlightened administration. In These Times. 29 June 2005.[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2169/ link]</ref></blockquote>
==References==
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<ref>Žižek[[Category:People|Adorno, S. (2000) Theodor]][[The Fragile AbsoluteCategory:Philosophy|Adorno, Theodor]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York[[Category: Verso. p. 105</ref> ==See Also== TICKLISHPolitics|Adorno, Theodor]] break with Habermas 347 Dialectic of Enlightenment (with Horkheimer) 10[[Category:Index|Adorno, 46, 359 Negative Dialectics 89 Philosophy of the New Music 250 sphere of Kultunndustrie 358 violin versus piano 101-2 ==External Links==Theodor]][http[Category://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno The Ticklish Subject|Adorno, Theodor Adorno]][http[Category://www.tasc.ac.uk/depart/MEDIA/staff/ls/Modules/Theory/Tarrying with the Negative|Adorno.htm link, Theodor]] [[Category:PhilosophyLooking Awry|Adorno, Theodor]][[Category:PoliticsSlavoj Žižek|Adorno, Theodor]]
