The Jargon of Authenticity

Theodor Adorno, Knut Tarnowski, Frederic Will

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German

Routledge
01 November 2002

Philosophy; Phenomenology & Existentialism

Series: Routledge Classics

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.

By: Theodor Adorno
Translated by: Knut Tarnowski, Frederic Will
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9780415289917
ISBN 10: 0415289912
Series: Routledge Classics
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 November 2002
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969). German philosopher who was a leading member of the Frankfurt School. Adorno led an influential attack on the culture industry prevalent in contemporary capitalist society.

Reviews for The Jargon of Authenticity

'Adorno is a political thinker who wished to bring about radical change.' - Iris Murdoch 'A volume of Adorno's essays is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.' - Susan Sontag 'Adorno expounds what may be called a new philosophy of consciousness. His philosophy lives, dangerously but also fruitfully, in proximity to an ascetic puritanical moral rage, an attachment to some items in the structure and vocabulary of Marxism, and a feeling that human suffering is the only important thing and makes nonsense of everything else... Adorno is a political thinker who wishes to bring about radical change. He is also a philosopher, with a zest for metaphysics, who is at home in the western philosophical tradition.' - Irish Murdoch