LECTURE SIX
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In Lecture Six, what does Adorno identify as the real social manifestation of the 'dialectic of enlightenment'?
View answer and explanationAccording to Adorno's citation of Franz Neumann's 'Behemoth', what was the reality of integration under fascism?
View answer and explanationHow does Adorno characterize the 'modern ideological doctrine' that is frequently used to object to the concept of society?
View answer and explanationTo what historical period does Adorno trace the aesthetic trend of presenting long-defunct, pre-bourgeois forms as the truly modern?
View answer and explanationAccording to Adorno, the effectiveness of the Springer press campaign against students in Berlin depended on what pre-existing condition?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno identify as the root cause of 'anti-intellectualism'?
View answer and explanationIn a world dominated by abstract regularities, what has the 'concrete' become, according to Adorno?
View answer and explanationWhich example does Adorno use to show that explanations of individual phenomena quickly lead to the social structure?
View answer and explanationWhat is the paradox of political education in a democracy, as described by Adorno?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno identify as the strongest argument against a positivist view of society?
View answer and explanationAdorno characterizes his own theoretical stance as a 'rebellion of experience against...' what?
View answer and explanationWhat concept, which was criticized by the sociologist Schelsky, does Adorno identify as the 'crux of the opposition to positivism'?
View answer and explanationTo demonstrate that his critique of positivist methods is not unique to the Frankfurt School, Adorno mentions which other sociologist and school of thought?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno consider to be a largely ideological concept when discussing the coexisting forces in 'pacified late-bourgeois society'?
View answer and explanationWhat political system does Adorno claim carried the ideological suggestion that to be 'unmodern or anti-modern' was, in fact, to be modern?
View answer and explanationWhat problem regarding social science does Adorno highlight with the example of the Berlin pogrom?
View answer and explanationWhat mythological cliché about students does Adorno suggest contributes to public resentment against them?
View answer and explanationAccording to Adorno, what is the consequence of criticizing an existing social system and proposing improvements?
View answer and explanationWhich philosopher does Adorno reference in relation to the 'Science of the Experience of Consciousness'?
View answer and explanationWho does Adorno credit with identifying the ineffectiveness of political education in studies conducted at Hessian gymnasia?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno believe is the reality behind the 'coexisting forces' in what is called pluralism?
View answer and explanationWhat is the 'essence of the argument' used by apologetics against a critical theory of society, according to Adorno?
View answer and explanationAdorno states that one of the tasks of a fully developed critical theory of society would be to assimilate what element, while cleansing it of its narrow practicism?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno identify as the primary reason for the 'curious affective charge' attached to the term 'concrete' in positivist sociology?
View answer and explanationWhat is the danger of the 'official ideal of science', according to Adorno's discussion of experience?
View answer and explanationHow does Adorno define his use of examples in his lectures?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key idea in 'society as experience,' as Adorno explains it?
View answer and explanationAdorno states that even when starting from individual facticity, empirical research is forced to acknowledge what?
View answer and explanationWhich colleague of Adorno's at Frankfurt does he mention as having a theoretical position 'very close' to that of Alfred Schutz?
View answer and explanationWhat reason does Adorno give for why a theory that is wholly incapable of making plausible predictions is objectionable?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno believe is the function of the concept of the 'concrete' in value-free, positivist sociology?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno mean when he says explanations of individual phenomena, like work climate, lead to the 'social structure'?
View answer and explanationAccording to Adorno, what is the 'extremely real' but 'non-factual' concept that determines the lives of people more than so-called 'concreta'?
View answer and explanationWhy does Adorno believe 'genuine experience' of something new is hardly possible in the world we live in?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno argue is the starting point for developing tendencies toward disintegration within society?
View answer and explanationAccording to Adorno, how has the way critical ideas are attacked changed in the 'modern ideological doctrine'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the 'spur to all theoretical thinking in the social sciences' that Adorno says he should not keep quiet about?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno mean when he says events like the Berlin pogrom are 'only seemingly concrete'?
View answer and explanationWhen Adorno states that 'all explanations of individual phenomena lead on much more quickly than is supposed to something resembling the social structure,' what does he want his audience to realize?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key condition for the kind of experience Adorno has tried to elucidate, such as the impossibility of adequate political education?
View answer and explanationWhich scholar's work on fascism, 'Behemoth', does Adorno cite as the most apposite socio-economic account?
View answer and explanationAdorno claims that modern apologetics for the existing order operate by framing critical thought that uses the concept of 'essence' as lagging behind what?
View answer and explanationWhat does Adorno identify as the ultimate limit to improvements proposed from within the system?
View answer and explanationHow does Adorno define 'Wesen' (essence) and 'Unwesen' (its antithesis) in the context of his lecture?
View answer and explanationWhat is the consequence for experience when positivism channels and guides it, according to Adorno?
View answer and explanationAdorno states that his critique of positivist methods is not the 'preserve of the Frankfurt School' because the same problems have appeared where?
View answer and explanationWhat is the positive motivation or element of reality that Adorno concedes to the argument that positivist tendencies are more advanced?
View answer and explanationWhen Adorno discusses the pogrom in Berlin, he says it could be explained by local conditions, but what makes this explanation less convincing?
View answer and explanationWhat is the ultimate consequence of the limitation placed on political education to not discuss structural questions?
View answer and explanationAdorno argues that if one's goal is to remain in closest touch with the facts, what must one's experience NOT do?
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