Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
