According to Hohendahl, "authentic" Adorno criticism, thus far sorely lacking, only began emerging in the early 1990s. Yet Adorno's cultural elitism, his criticism of mass culture, and his defense of the relative autonomy of the aesthetic soon placed him in the cross-hairs of postmodernists, who identified him as a mandarin cultural critic yearning nostalgically for a return to nineteenth-century bourgeois high culture. Because he critiqued idealism, constitutive subjectivity, the hegemony of reason, and history as teleology, Adorno was seen as a proto-deconstructionist in whose negative dialectics an affinity with deconstruction could be detected. With the advent of poststructuralism, however, Adorno's thought was appropriated in new ways. 1 In the heyday of New Left social movements which, in Germany especially, held firm to Marxist orthodoxy, Adorno was accused of being a pessimistic anti-revolutionary, resigned to pursuing theory without praxis and eschewing any vision of social transformation. In his introduction to that issue, Peter Hohendahl observes four historical trends in Adorno criticism. Since its appearance, studies of Adorno's oeuvre have not failed to remark upon his untimeliness: much like philosophy in the wake of Marxism, Adorno lives on as a missed opportunity, an unfulfilled promise. Adorno in which scholars proposed a critical reassessment of his philosophy. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.In 1992, New German Critique published a special issue devoted to the work of Theodor W. If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian.įor librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access. Oxford Academic is home to a wide variety of products.
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