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As an exile in America during the War, Theodor Adorno grew acquainted with the fundamentals of empirical social research, something which would shape the work he undertook in the early 1950s as co-director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Yet he also became increasingly aware of the 'fetishism of method' in sociology, and saw the serious limitations of theoretical work based solely on empirical findings. In this lecture course given in 1964, Adorno develops a critique of both sociology and philosophy, emphasizing that theoretical work requires a specific mediation between the two disciplines. Adorno advocates a philosophical approach to social theory that challenges the drive towards uniformity and a lack of ambiguity, highlighting instead the fruitfulness of experience, in all its messy complexity, for critical social analysis. At the same time, he shows how philosophy must also realise that it requires sociology if it is to avoid falling for the old idealistic illusion that the totality of real conditions can be grasped through thought alone. Masterfully bringing together philosophical and empirical approaches to an understanding of society, these lectures from one of the most important social thinkers of the 20th century will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, sociology and the social sciences generally. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The lectures are a good corrective to all of this: they present his thought in a way that he would no doubt have hated, but he would have been wrong to hate it, even based on his own thought (I'm convinced I could have convinced him to be more dialectical on the question of communicability). This particular set is particularly helpful. It's short. It makes it very clear that Adorno was a follower of Marx, if not a Marxist. It makes it *very* clear that he was more critical of Weber than impressed by him. Highly recommended to those who are interested. ( )