This study examines the intersections of music, philosophy and the use of metaphors and other linguistic expressions relating to violence in the writings of Theodor W. Adorno. After discussing contemporary theories of metaphor, it examines Adorno's comparisons of the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky in his 1948 volume Philosophie der neuen Musik, the posthumous collection of fragments for his...

A partir da reconstrução de aspectos teoria social Theodor Adorno, o objetivo deste artigo é uma interpretação sua crítica à mecânica sedução fascista em democracias. Se elementos continuidade entre nazifascismo e imediato pós-guerra nos países centrais já foram ressaltados Dialética do esclarecimento, Adorno aprofunda suas reflexões sobre condições objetivas os pressupostos subjetivos que mant...

Robert Merton, C. Wright Mills et al. repeatedly complained that the sociology of knowledge failed to solve its centralproblem of specifying the nexus between social and cognitive structures. Nonetheless, this field has remained limited to techniques of content analysis and correlation studies while failing to explain these categories and correlations other than by recourse to functionalist tru...

Introduction Post World War II Germany was facing enormous problems caused by its immediate past: psychological, economical, social, political, moral. In addition it had to deal with an awkward situation of the country being split artificially into two diametrically different republics. It had to cope with its heritage and recent past and find a way out of the impasse to be able to function in ...

O projeto de educação emancipadora Theodor Adorno ganha sentido e concreticidade por uma crítica reflexiva, podendo contribuir com o processo libertação dos sujeitos meio da formação acadêmica. uso do laboratório matemática na escola, pode provocar nos alunos questionamento reflexão sobre a realidade. Esse trabalho, analisa Adorno, defendendo que é um importante espaço dentro para concretizar b...

The English-reading world has recently been offered the alpha and omega of Adorno's systematic works. Not only do Dialectic of Enlightenment and Negative Dialectics present Adorno's original programmatic evocation and his final methodological summary respectively, but the Jargon of Authenticity and Philosophy of New Music footnote these with lengthy statements on two favorite leit-motifs: the p...