Adorno characterizes his own theoretical stance as a 'rebellion of experience against...' what?

Correct answer: Empiricism.

Explanation

This question tests for recall of a specific, pointed phrase Adorno uses to define his own project in opposition to the dominant positivist methodology.

Other questions

Question 1

In Lecture Six, what does Adorno identify as the real social manifestation of the 'dialectic of enlightenment'?

Question 2

According to Adorno's citation of Franz Neumann's 'Behemoth', what was the reality of integration under fascism?

Question 3

How does Adorno characterize the 'modern ideological doctrine' that is frequently used to object to the concept of society?

Question 4

To what historical period does Adorno trace the aesthetic trend of presenting long-defunct, pre-bourgeois forms as the truly modern?

Question 5

According to Adorno, the effectiveness of the Springer press campaign against students in Berlin depended on what pre-existing condition?

Question 6

What does Adorno identify as the root cause of 'anti-intellectualism'?

Question 7

In a world dominated by abstract regularities, what has the 'concrete' become, according to Adorno?

Question 8

Which example does Adorno use to show that explanations of individual phenomena quickly lead to the social structure?

Question 9

What is the paradox of political education in a democracy, as described by Adorno?

Question 10

What does Adorno identify as the strongest argument against a positivist view of society?

Question 12

What concept, which was criticized by the sociologist Schelsky, does Adorno identify as the 'crux of the opposition to positivism'?

Question 13

To demonstrate that his critique of positivist methods is not unique to the Frankfurt School, Adorno mentions which other sociologist and school of thought?

Question 14

What does Adorno consider to be a largely ideological concept when discussing the coexisting forces in 'pacified late-bourgeois society'?

Question 15

What political system does Adorno claim carried the ideological suggestion that to be 'unmodern or anti-modern' was, in fact, to be modern?

Question 16

What problem regarding social science does Adorno highlight with the example of the Berlin pogrom?

Question 17

What mythological cliché about students does Adorno suggest contributes to public resentment against them?

Question 18

According to Adorno, what is the consequence of criticizing an existing social system and proposing improvements?

Question 19

Which philosopher does Adorno reference in relation to the 'Science of the Experience of Consciousness'?

Question 20

Who does Adorno credit with identifying the ineffectiveness of political education in studies conducted at Hessian gymnasia?

Question 21

What does Adorno believe is the reality behind the 'coexisting forces' in what is called pluralism?

Question 22

What is the 'essence of the argument' used by apologetics against a critical theory of society, according to Adorno?

Question 23

Adorno 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?

Question 24

What does Adorno identify as the primary reason for the 'curious affective charge' attached to the term 'concrete' in positivist sociology?

Question 25

What is the danger of the 'official ideal of science', according to Adorno's discussion of experience?

Question 26

How does Adorno define his use of examples in his lectures?

Question 27

What is the key idea in 'society as experience,' as Adorno explains it?

Question 28

Adorno states that even when starting from individual facticity, empirical research is forced to acknowledge what?

Question 29

Which colleague of Adorno's at Frankfurt does he mention as having a theoretical position 'very close' to that of Alfred Schutz?

Question 30

What reason does Adorno give for why a theory that is wholly incapable of making plausible predictions is objectionable?

Question 31

What does Adorno believe is the function of the concept of the 'concrete' in value-free, positivist sociology?

Question 32

What does Adorno mean when he says explanations of individual phenomena, like work climate, lead to the 'social structure'?

Question 33

According to Adorno, what is the 'extremely real' but 'non-factual' concept that determines the lives of people more than so-called 'concreta'?

Question 34

Why does Adorno believe 'genuine experience' of something new is hardly possible in the world we live in?

Question 35

What does Adorno argue is the starting point for developing tendencies toward disintegration within society?

Question 36

According to Adorno, how has the way critical ideas are attacked changed in the 'modern ideological doctrine'?

Question 37

What is the 'spur to all theoretical thinking in the social sciences' that Adorno says he should not keep quiet about?

Question 38

What does Adorno mean when he says events like the Berlin pogrom are 'only seemingly concrete'?

Question 39

When 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?

Question 40

What is the key condition for the kind of experience Adorno has tried to elucidate, such as the impossibility of adequate political education?

Question 41

Which scholar's work on fascism, 'Behemoth', does Adorno cite as the most apposite socio-economic account?

Question 42

Adorno claims that modern apologetics for the existing order operate by framing critical thought that uses the concept of 'essence' as lagging behind what?

Question 43

What does Adorno identify as the ultimate limit to improvements proposed from within the system?

Question 44

How does Adorno define 'Wesen' (essence) and 'Unwesen' (its antithesis) in the context of his lecture?

Question 45

What is the consequence for experience when positivism channels and guides it, according to Adorno?

Question 46

Adorno states that his critique of positivist methods is not the 'preserve of the Frankfurt School' because the same problems have appeared where?

Question 47

What is the positive motivation or element of reality that Adorno concedes to the argument that positivist tendencies are more advanced?

Question 48

When Adorno discusses the pogrom in Berlin, he says it could be explained by local conditions, but what makes this explanation less convincing?

Question 49

What is the ultimate consequence of the limitation placed on political education to not discuss structural questions?

Question 50

Adorno argues that if one's goal is to remain in closest touch with the facts, what must one's experience NOT do?