Theodor W. Adorno citáty

Zdroj: Recenze Ondřeje Nezbedy http://www.prostor-nakladatelstvi.cz/cz/recenze/jean-amery-vztahnout-na-sebe-ruku-2.aspx?referrerID=6

Zdroj: [Stern, Jan, Média, psychoanalýza a jiné perverze, Malvern, Praha, 2006, 221, 1] Jméno našich časů, 12, http://storage29.uloz.to/Ps;Hs;up=1;uid=2593165;cid=300852607;uip=90.176.222.24;aff=uloz.to;did=uloz-to;fide=gwkMjQX;fs=D542RIIQvGZu;hid=8Bj3hTS;rid=305770485;tm=1589492710;ut=f;rs=0;He;ch=1c424f9501201ada5edd94bd70170c19;Pe/file/D542RIIQvGZu/s12-pdf?bD&u=2593165&c=300852607&De&redirs=1, 80-86702-13-8]

Source: [Hrčková, Naďa, 2007, Dějiny hudby, Ikar, 28, 978-80-249-0978-3]

Zdroj: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 273

Section 10
Culture Industry Reconsidered (1963)
Kontext: The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

Zdroj: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 290

E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 1
Minima Moralia (1951)
Kontext: The son of well-to-do parents who … engages in a so-called intellectual profession, as an artist or a scholar, will have a particularly difficult time with those bearing the distasteful title of colleagues. It is not merely that his independence is envied, the seriousness of his intentions mistrusted, that he is suspected of being a secret envoy of the established powers. … The real resistance lies elsewhere. The occupation with things of the mind has by now itself become “practical,” a business with strict division of labor, departments and restricted entry. The man of independent means who chooses it out of repugnance for the ignominy of earning money will not be disposed to acknowledge the fact. For this he is punished. He … is ranked in the competitive hierarchy as a dilettante no matter how well he knows his subject, and must, if he wants to make a career, show himself even more resolutely blinkered than the most inveterate specialist. The urge to suspend the division of labor which, within certain limits, his economic situation enables him to satisfy, is thought particularly disreputable: it betrays a disinclination to sanction the operations imposed by society, and domineering competence permits no such idiosyncrasies. The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract. It performs this task all the more reliably since anyone who repudiates this division of labor—if only by taking pleasure in his work—makes himself vulnerable by its standards, in ways inseparable from elements of his superiority. Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game.