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And if you find out what Christopher Hitchens drinks, let us know so we can avoid it.
Hector Rottweiller Jr's Web Log. No personal trivia, no quotidian banality, no family photos, no prisoners.
Other correspondents have corrected mistakes in my article. Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinz Steinert has kindly pointed out that Adorno's pen name was not Detlev Rottweiler, but Hektor Rottweiler (I do not know how I came to make this foolish error)
NYT Review of Books: Adoring Adorno
praschl | 17. April 03 | 3 Kommentare  | Kommentieren





FraFuchs, 17. April 2003 um 12:53:21 MESZ
Stravinsky's work, on the other hand, is subjected to a polemical onslaught well illustrated by the section headings: Archaism, Modernism, Infantilism; Permanent Regression and Musical Form; The Psychotic Aspect; Alienation as Objectivity; Fetishism of the Means; Depersonalization; Catatonia. Remarks like "The sado-masochistic element accompanies Stravinsky's music through all its phases" sustain the polemical tone, so congenial to Adorno, who had for his youthful journalism used the pseudonym Detlev Rottweiler. Much of this reads like a parody of the only too familiar Philistine picture of the avant-garde tradition as the work of degenerate perverts. [...] Under Adorno's hands, many of the terms so frequently repeated begin to lose a great part of their meaning. He himself makes a fetish of "fetishism," as well as of "bourgeois," "subjectivity," "regressive," "infantile," and other words, which tend to become vacuous when applied so mechanically and so uncritically. (Should We Adore Adorno?)

Bis auf den falschen Vornamen beim Pseudonym liest sich das schlüssig...

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jakehoover, 17. April 2003 um 13:37:05 MESZ

Koellerer, am 21.Dezember 2002 www.koellerer.de zitiert auch noch zustimmend aus dem gleichen Aufsatz: His intelligence, nevertheless, was derivative rather than original. One important influence on Adorno os not mentioned by his admirers because it is no longer intellectually respectable: the Oswald Spengler of the once-famous "Decline of the West". Like Spengler, he preferred intuition to empirical research and theory to empirical description.

Kennt Rosen Adorno überhaupt?


FraFuchs, 17. April 2003 um 14:11:39 MESZ

Die von jakehoover zitierte Passage endet mit: He combined brilliant insights into the phenomena of culture with an essentially fraudulent manipulation of terms to hide the inadequate relation of his theory to historical detail.

Was in etwa auch meine Haltung zusammenfaßt. Bewunderung für großartige Formulierungen und Einsichten auf der einen Seite, Verwunderung über "bis zur Unkenntlichkeit aufgebläht(e)"[*] Begriffe auf der anderen.

[*] Christian Köllerer in seiner Postmoderne-Kritik (Teil IV)

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