Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society by Adorno Theodor W.;

Author:Adorno, Theodor W.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2018-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 The first sentences of the lecture seem to be missing in the transcript of the recording.

2 The statement which Adorno mistakenly attributes to Engels was made by Marx: ‘The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force must be overthrown by material force. But theory also becomes a material force once it has gripped the masses’ (Marx, ‘Toward a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’, trans. Lloyd D. Easton and Kurt H. Guddat, in Selected Writings, ed. Lawrence H. Simon [Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994], p. 34.

3 The quotation could not be traced. Adorno presumably means the American sociologist William I. Thomas (1863–1947).

4 See Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 166.

5 Regarding the ‘philosophy of inwardness’, Adorno writes in The Jargon of Authenticity: In the classic texts of existentialism, as in that of the Kierkegaardian sickness unto death, existence becomes a relationship to itself, under which heading nothing further can be conceived. It becomes, as it were, an absolutized element of mediation, without any regard for what is mediated; and it pronounces a verdict, from the very beginning, against any philosophy of inwardness. In the jargon, finally, there remains from inwardness only the most external aspect, that thinking oneself superior which marks people who elect themselves: the claim of people who consider themselves blessed simply by virtue of being what they are. Without any effort, this claim can turn into an elitist claim, or into a readiness to attach itself to elites which then quickly gives the ax to inwardness. (Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, trans. Knut Tarnowski and Frederic Will [Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973], p. 75)

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