Adorno and Scholem

Angermann, Asaf

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“…Nor is it rare to emphasise that the Dialectic of Enlightenment , as put by Rüdiger Bittner (2004: 157), ‘is studded with words of religious origin’. Many theorists have argued that an adequate understanding of early Frankfurt School writings requires attending to their religious dimension (Angermann, 2020; Dorahy, 2014; Kaufmann, 2000). 2 My approach differs from analyses of the religious language of Frankfurt School authors in at least two respects.…”

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Dialectical myth of the Fall

Trovik

2023

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This article reinterprets the Dialectic of Enlightenment as a retelling of the Christian myth of the Fall. Through its account of the aporia, which Horkheimer and Adorno maintain stands at its core, the Dialectic of Enlightenment rearticulates the doctrine of original sin. The human condition is presented as tragic, and the source of this tragedy is inscribed into the very structure of human subjectivity. While the Dialectic of Enlightenment refuses to abandon hope, emancipation is reconceptualised on the model of redemption; a kind of fulfilment of human nature, which would at the same time be an escape from it. Horkheimer and Adorno dispense, however, with any transcendent source of grace. Instead, the activity of philosophy itself takes on redemptive quality.

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2023

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Adorno and Religion

Angermann

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Adorno

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This chapter explores the complex but meaningful role of religious ideas and theological arguments in Adorno’s thought. It examines how, alongside his critical analyses of the manifestations of religious consciousness in modern life, Adorno continuously employs religious concepts and theological sources in his writings. Reviewing the socio-political dimensions of the uses and abuses of religion Adorno diagnoses in political and cultural life, mass media, and entertainment, the chapter explicates how, according to Adorno, religious content is often reduced to superstition, occultism, and xenophobic ideology. The chapter then turns to the more constructive, socially redemptive elements of Adorno’s perspective on religion: the resemblance of his metaphysical arguments to negative theology and his unique concept of inverse theology. Finally, the chapter illuminates the significance of religion in Adorno’s aesthetics. It is in his theory of art, the author argues, that Adorno’s thought seems most theological, yet even here it remains, after all, primarily historical and materialistic.

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Adorno and Scholem

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Dialectical myth of the Fall

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