This paper discuses what Theodor W. Adorno says about the problem of the happiness in his Ästhetische Theorie (1970). In the first part, I explain what I call "paradoxical happiness". This concept tell us why in the ...

Many different interpreters of Theodor W. Adorno's work suggest that the critique of instrumental rationality has replaced the critique of capitalism in the development of his work, mainly because of the adoption of the ...

This article aims to situate the interpretation proposed by Theodor W. Adorno for Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame in the context of his conception of the autonomy of art. According to the hypothesis of this essay, the concept ...

This thesis states that the category of constellation is the key of what Adorno calls thought models and, as such, guarantees the loyalty to his utopia of knowledge. In doing so, it challenges in fruitful way two interpretation ...

This article comprises an effort to establish some points of similarity between the reflections on aesthetics and art present in Jacques Lacan and Theodor Adorno's work. While in the first case the study accounts only ...

: Theodor W. Adorno’s late critical theory is often regarded as quietist and resignated. This article seeks to question this verdict through an analysis of both the diagnosis of time made by the author as of the relationship ...