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already lost, defensive position of theology and metaphysics, or whether the- ology and metaphysics survived only in the meanest ...

B. Anti-Positivism According to Adorno, the thesis of positivism from Auguste Comte to Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, the Vienna Sch ...

to which they related themselves. If, however, that was the case, so the anti- elitist Horkheimer argued, then any good observer ...

and Adorno 1969; Adorno 1997). In Horkheimer ’s view, the positivists did not know the facts of the true insight and the right a ...

for the survival of civil society, but it is untrue. No genuine religious person could possibly accept such compromise. In Marcu ...

Functionaries According to Horkheimer, through the way in which the positivists deter- mined what was to be called science, they ...

had to practice negation in the dialectics, the critique, always on themselves. Outside the Eastern European republics negation ...

been forgotten. His followers would have wasted and squandered themselves. They would have gone down in darkness. Also, religiou ...

do not only move beyond the religious and the metaphysical, but also beyond the secular, as for example, expressed in positivism ...

the totally administered society, to resist alternative Future II – the militaris- tic society, and to promote in theory and pra ...

the face of radical evil in the most murderous 20th century, the religious dogma of an all-powerful and all-benevolent God had b ...

Infinite was the entirely Other of man and society and history. It is precisely through its determinate negation, or turning ups ...

From Idealistic to Materialistic Dialectic Already in 1942, Horkheimer had stated in American exile, that if one thought through ...

Critical Theory of Religion The critical theory of religion was an integral part of the critical theory of society (Adorno and K ...

According to Adorno, at the same time Benjamin was to represent and expose the notion of the dialectical image in full lucidity. ...

image was not to be put into the consciousness. To the contrary, through the dialectical construction the dream would have to be ...

that, in the 19th century certainly, only the individual could be the subject of the dream. However, so Adorno argued, out of th ...

of the commodity character in the Hegelian self-consciousness the explosion and blasting of the phantasmagoria. The Restitution ...

Luther Thomas’ radio addresses (Adorno 1997). Thomas was the Protestant counterpart to the clerico-fascist Catholic radio priest ...

istic thinking of the masses as a kind of intellectual process. By producing in their speeches the vagueness of a thinking proce ...