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Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language, he calls into question the jargon, or 'aura', as his colleague Walter Benjamin described it, which clouded existentialists' thought. He argued that its use undermined the very message for meaning and liberation that it sought to make authentic. Moreover, such language - claiming to address the issue of freedom - signally failed to reveal the lack of freedom inherent in the capitalist context in which it was written. Instead, along with the jargon of the advertising jingle, it attributed value to the satisfaction of immediate desire. Alerting his readers to the connection between ideology and language, Adorno's frank and open challenge to directness, and the avoidance of language that 'gives itself over either to the market, to balderdash, or to the predominating vulgarity', is as timely today as it ever has been. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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That said, the critique was pretty fascinating in places, especially around the beginning (e.g. on the role of jargon devoid of reality) and toward the end (e.g. the paradox of defining oneself as existing alongside "death"). It seems like these key points are still (more) relevant today as we continue to struggle with a more mediated, structured society still bound by fairly modern-industrial paradigms.
But I drifted off in the middle - the book felt more like a ranting blogpost by a very clever, but very grumpy old man at times. Short enough to put up with, but a little too convoluted and negative to really hold my interest.
Give this one a go if you're into this kind of thing, I think :) ( )