Lexicon of Arguments

 

Grenz I 51
Culture/Adorno/Grenz: culture can only reproduce the ruling one, both formally and in terms of content.
>Culture, >Art/Adorno.
I 52
Mind/Adorno: the mind thus becomes an affirmative doubling of what already already is.
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Grenz I 67
Mind/Adorno/Grenz: the mind that appears as the 'objective mind of the material' was formerly subjective.
>Objectivity, >Subject/Object problem, >Subjectivity.
I Grenz 168
Mind/Adorno/Grenz: that the mind separated from the real life-relations becomes independent of them, is not only its untruth but also its truth. ... the irrevocable independence of the mind towards society, the promise of freedom, is as much a social as the unity of both.⁽¹⁾ (Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 8, p. 121).
Grenz: thus: the historical movement of the present is conceived as a reconstruction.
>History/Adorno, >Time, >Present, >Past, >Future.
Culture/Adorno/Grenz: If culture is understood as the de-barbaric, the transition to the phase after the time when the culture could have been appropriated...
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I 169
...and must have been appropriated, barbarism, is anthropologically speaking regression.⁽²⁾
Anthropogenesis: is determined by Adorno as declining. E.g. Regression of hearing.


1. Th.W. Adorno. Gesammelte Schriften Bd. 8 p.121
2. Th.W. Adorno. Dialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente. Amsterdam 1947. p. 42f