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'''Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno''' ([[September 11]], 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a [[German ]] [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]], musicologist and composer. He was a member of the [[Frankfurt School]] along with [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Walter Benjamin]], [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Jürgen Habermas]] and [[others]]. He was also ==Slavoj Žižek==Further information [[about]] [[Theodor Adorno]] can be found in the Music Director following reference(s):* [[Slavoj Žižek|Žižek, Slavoj]]. [[The Ticklish Subject|The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology]]. [[London]]: Verso, 1999. : break with [[Habermas]] - p. 347: ''[[Dialectic]] of [[Enlightenment]]'' (with [[Horkheimer]]) - pp. 10, 46, 359: ''[[Negative]] Dialectics'' - p. 89: ''[[Philosophy]] of the New [[Radio ProjectMusic]]'' - p. 250 : sphere of'' Kulturindustrie'' - p. 358 : violin versus piano - pp.101-2

Already as a young music critic and amateur sociologist, Theodor W. Adorno was primarily a philosophical thinker. The label * {{Z}} 'social philosopher' emphasizes the socially critical aspect of his philosophical thinking, which from [945 onwards took an intellectually prominent position in the [[critical theory (Frankfurt School)The Fragile Absolute|critical theory]] of the Frankfurt School.  =Intrumental Reason=<blockquote>"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.</blockquote><ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, ]].'' London and New York: Verso, 2000. p. 18</ref>105 <ref>Žižek* {{Z}} ''[[Tarrying with the Negative|Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, SHegel and the Critique of Ideology]]''. (2000) Durham: Duke [[The Fragile AbsoluteUniversity]]Press, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso1993. p. 105</ref>242 n. 19 ==Late Capitalism==<ref>Žižek, S. (2000) * {{Z}} ''[[The Fragile AbsoluteLooking Awry|Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture]]''. Cambridge: MIT Press, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso1991. p. 61-2</ref>142

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