Th. W. Adorno y la aniquilación del individuo

[EN] Th. W. Adorno and other Critical Theory authors knew well how to identify emerging social processes which have been unfolded and confirmed through time. Opposite to those who denounce his supposed apories and exaggerated negativism, it is defended here the present relevance of one of his more w...

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Autor: Zamora Zaragoza, José Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/201762
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/201762
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Th. W. Adorno
Individuo
Capitalismo
Liberalismo
Experiencia
Debilidad del yo
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Sumario:[EN] Th. W. Adorno and other Critical Theory authors knew well how to identify emerging social processes which have been unfolded and confirmed through time. Opposite to those who denounce his supposed apories and exaggerated negativism, it is defended here the present relevance of one of his more well known and discussed thesis, that of the annihilation of the subject. The transition from liberal to monopolist capitalism serves as framework for the analysis of the contradictions between the burgeois individual and its social constitution. In the second part, it is considered the issue of the «weakness of the self» as the psychic configuration correspondig to the liquidation of the individual in late capitalist society. In the centenary of Th. W. Adorno’s birth, these reflections are intended as an homage to the thinker and its thinking, which appears nowadays as even more indispensable than ever