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On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical interest. Against the backdrop of the rise of the NPD, which in the first two years after its founding in November 1964 had already seen surprising success at the polls, Adorno analyses the goals, resources, and tactics of the new right-wing radicalism of his time. Contrasting it with »old«...
On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical interest. Against the backdrop of the rise of the NPD, which in the first two years after its founding in November 1964 had already seen surprising success at the polls, Adorno analyses the goals, resources, and tactics of the new right-wing radicalism of his time. Contrasting it with »old« Nazi-Fascism, he gives a close examination of the reasons for which extreme right-wing movements were finding a positive reception – 20 years after the end of the war – in segments of the population of the Federal Republic.
Since then a lot has changed, but some things have remained the same or even, 50 years on, come back again. And thus Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism reads like a message-in-a-bottle to the future, whose value for our present Volker Weiß presents in his afterword.
The collected works of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) are published by Suhrkamp Verlag and have been translated into more than 40 languages.
»Most of all, Adorno was a great polymath, one of the last exemplars in a long tradition of European thinkers, who constantly transgressed the conventional academic boundaries that separate the disciplines - philosophy from sociology, politics from aesthetics, even music from morality.« Peter E. Gordon, New York Review of Books
»As his striking speech in Vienna from 52 years ago shows, he is still the man of the hour.« The German Times
»It sounds like a form of academic coquetry when Adorno calls his theses ›simple‹ and warns us against premature conclusions. But what does simple mean? In the end, Adorno’s descriptions are extremely dense, and the historian Volker Weiß is correct when, in his cleverly balanced afterword, he indicates that some of these theses remain strikingly evident even today.« Thomas Assheuer, DIE ZEIT
»Taking the more than 50 year-old text into one’s hands, after just a few pages one is shocked at just how actual many of those aspects Adorno singled out are.« Arno Widmann, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Adorno’s 1967 [...] Vienna lecture on aspects of new right-wing radicalism in many ways reads like a commentary on the rise of the AfD.« Georg Dotzauer, Der Tagesspiegel
»What would Adorno say today about so-called right-wing populism? One can give a rather solid answer to this question, for on 6 April 1967 the philosopher held [...] a lecture on aspects of new right-wing radicalism, and, in some cases, his thoughts are astonishingly relevant to today’s situation.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
»Amazingly one often has the impression that what’s written here was not thought half a century ago, but just now. [...] in places like [here] you can easily watch Adorno’s dialectic at work.« Jens-Christian Rabe, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Adorno’s observations on aspects of new right-wing radicalism are not only amazingly topical, but of a subtlety absent in many current publications on the right.« Michael Angele, der Freitag
»No speck of dust has settled on the lines. Propaganda, a perfidious web of lies, is still the essence of right-wing radicalism.« Caroline Fetscher, Der Tagesspiegel
»Indeed, many passages of the lecture read like a direct comment on the methods and ideology of the right-wing politics since 2015. […] At the same time, it is kept so open and pointedly not authoritarian or commanding that nowadays it can be read an invitation to develop its ideas further.« Benjamin Moldenhauer, Der Spiegel
»Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture about the New Right in 1967. It is surprisingly topical today.« Marc Reichwein, Die Literarische Welt
»The socio-psychological explanations Adorno points out for the NPD apply to the AfD today. The big swindle is the same.« Jens Uthoff, taz. die Tageszeitung
»Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism is the title of the philosopher’s analysis. It was written in 1967. But it is as though Adorno had written it for us today.« Michael Kluger, Frankfurter Neue Presse
» […] Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism from 1967 impresses with its clarity and analytical societal depth. A priceless asset for everyone wishing to better understand the dynamics of right-wing radicalism and to strengthen democratic culture.« SWR
»Most of all, Adorno was a great polymath, one of the last exemplars in a long tradition of European thinkers, who constantly transgressed the conventional academic boundaries that separate the disciplines - philosophy from sociology, politics from aesthetics, even music from morality.« Peter E. Gordon, New York Review of Books
»As his striking speech in Vienna from 52 years ago shows, he is still the man of the hour.« The German Times
»It sounds like...
Theodor W. Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main and died in 1969. He was a leading German philosopher, and alongside his friends Siegfried Kracauer, Max Horkheimer, and Walter Benjamin, was a key representative of the »Frankfurt School«. The collected and posthumous works of Theodor W. Adorno have been translated into more than 40 languages.
Theodor W. Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main and died in 1969. He was a leading German philosopher, and alongside his...
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In March 1925, 21-year-old Dr. Theodor Wiesengrund moves to Vienna for a few months to continue his training in composition with Alban Berg. Berg introduces him to the Vienna string quartet and its 28-year-old lead violinist Rudolf Kolisch, one of the most important interpreters of the New Music of the Schönberg school. Adorno and Kolisch quickly become friends and begin an extensive...
In June 1923, Symphony No. 2 by composer Ernst Krenek – only twenty-two years of age at the time – was first performed as part of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein’s Musicians Festival in Kassel. In the audience sat a 19-year-old philosopher who had just started writing his dissertation, showed great interest in music and who experienced this performance as a shock: Theodor W....
When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his American exile in 1949, he not only resumed his teaching and research at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Institute for Social Research,...
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In 1948 Theodor W. Adorno wrote a text on the authoritarian personality which remained unpublished until today and that is not so much a retrospective look at the barbarism of the Nazis but first...
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»I really like him and we find that we have an awful lot to say to each other« Gershom Scholem wrote to Walter Benjamin in 1938. With »he« Scholem meant Theodor W. Adorno, the man whom...
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At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but...
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Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive...
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Created between 1940 and 1948 while Adorno was in exile in the United States, elements of a dialectic of the contemporary mind are developed by way of a concrete object in Philosophy of Modern...
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The »Aesthetic Theory« is Adorno’s last major work which was close to completion when he died. It is considered one of his main workds and was undoubtedly planned as such by Adorno: Aesthetic...
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This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on...
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»Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler’s music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment...
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»A reflection on everyday existence in the ›sphere of consumption of late Capitalism‹, this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.« (book description from...
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