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'''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

 =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 '* {{Z}} '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]]|The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, ]].'' London and New York: Verso, 2000. p. 18</ref></blockquote> ==Late Capitalism==<blockquote>105Back in the 1940s, Theodor Adorno pointed out how, in the [[late capitalism|late capitalist]] * {{Z}} '[[administered world]]', the classical [[Freud]]ian notion of Tarrying with the [[ego]] as Negative|Tarrying with the mediating agency between the two extremesNegative: Kant, the inner [[drive]]s of the [[id]] Hegel and the external social constraints Critique of the superegoIdeology]], is no longer operative''. Durham: what we encounter in today's so-called Duke [[narcissisticUniversity]] [[personality]] is a direct pact between superego and id at the expense of the egoPress, 1993. p. 242 n. The basic lesson of the so-called 19* {{Z}} ''[[totalitarianismLooking Awry|Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture]]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>ŽižekCambridge: MIT Press, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso1991. p.61-2</ref></blockquote>142

<ref>Žižek[[Category:People|Adorno, S. (2000) Theodor]][[The Fragile AbsoluteCategory:Philosophy|Adorno, Theodor]][[Category:Politics|Adorno, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting ForTheodor]][[Category:Index|Adorno, London and New YorkTheodor]][[Category: Verso. p. 105</ref> ==See Also==  ==External Links==The Ticklish Subject|Adorno, Theodor]][http[Category://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno Tarrying with the Negative|Adorno, Theodor Adorno] ][[Category:PhilosophyLooking Awry|Adorno, Theodor]][[Category:PoliticsSlavoj Žižek|Adorno, Theodor]]