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Summary. This essay intends to explore some of Adornos relations with literature, having as leitmotiv the concepts of memory, catastrophe, and utopia. Literatures memory is rebellion against the veil of oblivion with which mass media and the spheres of power want to cover catastrophes, cruelties and lies lived by a society, and of it, contributes to keep utopia: the wish that society can be organized more justly. In the center of Adornos reflection on literature is the relation between the literary work and society, and the relations of the former, through form, with the latter. What does the truth of a work of art entail? How to think the relationship between work of art and society without giving way to sociologism? Does the work of art fulfill a cognitive role? Answering to this questions is the goal of this essay. Keywords: Literature, pain, aesthetics, language, utopia, society, memory, work of art, catastrophe.
Resumen. El texto pretende sealar un recorrido cronolgico por algunas de las obras ms importantes de Theodor Adorno. Con ello se procura mostrar cmo en su filosofa, desde sus inicios hasta su ltima gran obra, hubo un desarrollo coherente en el cual el arte lleg a configurarse como un modelo crtico de la razn ilustrada, en tanto que l puede acoger y representar lo excluido, y por ello coartado, por la racionalidad instrumental. Palabras claves: Arte, reconciliacin, disonancia, individuo, sistema, sociedad, racionalidad instrumental, material artstico, mmesis, negatividad, no identidad, apariencia esttica.
Summary. This paper intends to highlight a chronological path through some of the most important works of Theodor Adorno. Thus it is shown how in his philosophy, from the very beginning until his last great work, there was a coherent development which constituted itself in a critical model of enlightened reason, inasmuch as it can accept and represent the excluded, and thus limited, by instrumental rationality. Keywords: Art, reconciliation, dissonance, individual, system, society, instrumental rationality, artistic material, mimesis, negativity, non identity, aesthitic appearance.
Summary. According to Adorno, theorys lack of subordination to immediate practical exigencies reflects and reproduces an injustice, namely that associated with the division between mental and manual labor. Nonetheless, theory is in his view a source of autonomy in the face of the increasingly acute domination of nature and administrative control of life under advanced industrial capitalism. Adornos dialectical writing is geared toward the avoidance of classifying uses of language. In other words, such writing aims toward dismantling the doctrine of the primacy of universals. Adorno opts for a form of discourse that coheres with his critique of reification. Key words: Dialectics, theory, praxis, domination of nature.
Resumen. En este trabajo se pretende hacer una pequea correlacin, a manera de homenaje, entre el pensamiento de Theodor W. Adorno y el de su amado maestro, Walter Benjamin. Los vnculos que unen a ambos pensadores, pueden encontrarse en el peso de las palabras que comparten, en medio de un contexto propio de la crtica filosfica alemana y de las races judaicas que los unen. Bajo la figura alegrica del ngel de la historia, se tejen nexos entre una seleccin de citas tomadas de la Dialctica negativa de Th. W. Adorno y de algunos conceptos expuestos en El origen del drama barroco alemn de W. Benjamin. Palabras claves: Historia, ngel, alegora, progreso, nombre, verdad, idea, concepto. Summary. This paper intends to establish a small correlation, by way of homage, between Theodor W. Adornos thought and that of his beloved teacher, Walter Benjamin. The ties that bind both thinkers can be found in the weight of the words that they share, in the context of German critical philosophy and the Jewish roots that links them. Under the allegoric figure of the angel of history, bonds are woven among a selection of quotations taken from Adornos Negative Dialectics and from some concepts expounded in Benjamins The Origin of Baroque Drama. Keywords: History, angel, allegory, progress, name, truth, idea, concept.
Summary. The goal of this essay is to present some of the central topics of Adornos Negative Dialectics. Especial attention is devoted to the concept of mediation and its relations with the concept of non-identity, and to the concept of subject and object. Adornos attempt to overcome immanently the tight duality subject-object made by modern philosophy, and the underlying concept of conciousness is very important. That is why it is so difficult to consider Adorno, as Habermas does, to be a philosopher trapped in the aporias of the philosophy of conciousness. Keywords: Negative dialectic, mediate, immediate, identification, subject, object, language, body.