Critique of politics: Adorno on Durkheim
| Autor: | Julia Christ |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Emancipation
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) 050109 social psychology DUAL (cognitive architecture) 0506 political science Epistemology Political sociology Politics Critical theory Justice (virtue) 050602 political science & public administration 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Social science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Classical Sociology. 17:331-341 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2897 1468-795X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1468795x17736127 |
| Popis: | This paper analyzes a dual relationship between Adorno and Durkheim: on the one hand, Adorno adopts Durkheim’s perspective on society, describing it as an obscure, opaque thing that individuals cannot understand by themselves; on the other, he tries to get out of the opacity that he recognizes as a structural moment of the society he lives in. This last point engages us in a discussion of the relationship between political sociology and philosophy of emancipation, which allows to study in a new perspective the only text Adorno published in his lifetime on Durkheim: his preface to Philosophy and Sociology, the critical violence of which is well known and often interpreted as a complete rejection of Durkheim’s sociology. The thesis of this article is that the conflict between Adorno and Durkheim is a political one and that the division between the two authors lies in their evaluation of the capacity of the modern capitalist society to produce out of itself common ideals that assure the justice of the actual social order. |
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