scholarly journals NEGATIVITAS TOTAL: KRITIK ADORNO TERHADAP RASIONALITAS DAN SENI MASYARAKAT MODERN

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Sunarto Sunarto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The Arts

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) adalah salah satu tokoh dari Mazhab Frankfurt, yang sangat akrab dengan Max Horkheimer. Keduanya membesarkan Mazhab Frankfurt. Adorno ahli dari berbagai bidang: filsafat, sosiologi, dan musikolgi. Pemikirannya saling bertautan. Kritiknya terhadap seni modern lebih kepada pertautan dengan sosiologi. Kondisi masyarakat modern post-aufklarung telah begitu memprihatinkan dengan mengorbankan hidup demi rasionalitas teknologi yang instrumental. Adorno menganggap telah terjadi pembalikkan total atas peran manusia sebagai subjek menjadi objek. Masyarakat modern telah terjebak rasionalitasnya sendiri. Bidang seni telah terjebak pada industrialisasi, yang memungkinkan manusia telah kehilangan daya estetis. Manusia menciptakan seni dan sebagai subjek seni akhirnya menjadi objek seni. Realitas inilah yang disebut sebagai “negativitas total”, manusia ingin menguasai alam akhirnya terkuasai oleh alam itu sendiri. Seni yang diciptakan manusia, akhirnya menjadi seni untuk kebutuhan “sesaat” dan konsumtif belaka.Kata Kunci: seni, negativitas total, teori kritis, rasionalitas Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the leaders of the Frankfurt School, who is very familiar with Max Horkheimer. Both raise the Frankfurt School. Adorno experts from various fields: philosophy, sociology, and musikolgi. Their thinking is interlocked. His criticism of modern art is more to engagement with sociology. Conditions Aufklarung post-modern society has been so alarming at the expense live for rasionality instrumental technology. Adorno considers there has been a total reversal of the role of man as a subject to an object. Modern society has stuck own rationality. The arts have been stuck on industrialization, which allows humans have lost their aesthetic. Humans create art and as a subject of art eventually became an art object. Reality is what is referred to as "total negativity", humans want to control nature eventually possessed by nature itself. Art created humans, eventually becoming an art for the needs of “instantaneous” and a mere consumer.Keywords: art, total negativity, critical theory, rationality 

Imagination and Art

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Swedberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the role of imagination and the arts in helping social scientists to theorize well. However deep one's basic knowledge of social theory is, and however many concepts, mechanisms, and theories one knows, unless this knowledge is used in an imaginative way, the result will be dull and noncreative. A good research topic should among other things operate as an analogon—that is, it should be able to set off the theoretical imagination of the social scientist. Then, when a social scientist writes, he or she may want to write in such a way that the reader's theoretical imagination is stirred. Besides imagination, the chapter also discusses the relationship of social theory to art. There are a number of reason for this, including the fact that in modern society, art is perceived as the height of imagination and creativity.

1. The Frankfurt School

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Stephen Eric Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inner Circle

‘The Frankfurt School’ provides a brief history of the formation of the Frankfurt School, and biographies of prominent members. The Frankfurt School grew out of the Institute for Social Research, the first Marxist think tank. However, in 1930, under the directorship of Max Horkheimer, the organization moved to America to escape the Nazis, and began to concentrate on critical theory. Aside from Horkheimer, notable members of the Frankfurt School's inner circle included Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas. Each member of the inner circle was different, but they all shared the same concerns, and attempted to solve them through intellectual daring and experimentation.

scholarly journals Aesthetic Factor of Customer Perception and Its Role in Managing Company Competitiveness

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
S. A. Afonsky
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Customer Perception ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Made In

The article advances the idea about a drop in people interest in buying similar goods and services, especially in conditions of uncertainty, in particular corona-virus epidemic, when people care less about external things, such as their clothes for visiting public places. Today we observe the necessity in meeting aesthetic needs through different tools and artistic objects. Therefore, we can say that it is a certain return to those times, when in public places and even in the Underground you can see real works of art that were not made in a hurry, according to the principle ‘the cheaper the better', but those of full value. In spring 2021 we conducted a survey of students of the Russian Plekhanov University of Economics and the Arts College RGGU to find the role of the aesthetic (emotional, sensual) element - the art-object (in this case - a poster) - in conditions of uncertainty, i. e. COVID-19 epidemic. The findings of this research showed that aesthetic value of graphics takes a foreground, it should be connected with specialization of the trade enterprise, its historic and other factors. The author demonstrates that availability of aesthetic values can form a motivating platform for repeated visits to the store and thus shape its competitive advantage.

scholarly journals Social criticism as medical diagnosis? On the role of social pathology and crisis within critical theory

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Peter J. Verovšek
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Social Pathology ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Talking Cure

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School starts with an explanatory-diagnostic analysis of the social pathologies of the present followed by anticipatory-utopian reflection on possible treatments for these disorders. This approach draws extensively on parallels to medicine. I argue that the ideas of social pathology and crisis that pervade the methodological writings of the Frankfurt School help to explain critical theory’s contention that the object of critique identifies itself when social institutions cease to function smoothly. However, in reflecting on the role that reason and self-awareness play in the second stage of social criticism, I contend that this model is actually better conceptualized through the lens of the psychoanalyst rather than the physician. Although the first generation’s explicit commitment to psychoanalysis has dissipated in recent critical theory, faith in a rationalized ‘talking cure’ leading to greater self-awareness of existing pathologies remains at the core of the Frankfurt School.

DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL OF ARTISTIC SYNTHESIS IN THE ART EDUCATION OF A FUTURE TEACHER

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Olena Malytska
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Artistic Training

The synthesis of the arts is not the latest concept, but at the beginning of the XXI century it acquired a unique, compared to other eras, role in the artistic culture of modern society. Modern artistic practices are characterized by new synthetic properties, and therefore approaches to the mastery of modern teachers of modern art forms should take into account the relevant features of perception of works of art and synesthetic features of the process of artistic creation. Updating the technologies of art education and its methodological basis in the context of artistic synthesis is a factor in effectively solving the problems of artistic training of future teachers.

scholarly journals Towards a constructive critical geopolitics – Inspirations from the Frankfurt School of critical theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veit Bachmann ◽  
Sami Moisio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Critical Geopolitics ◽  
Peace Research ◽  
Societal Role

This paper seeks to enrich the scholarly potential and further develop the societal role of critical geopolitical scholarship. In particular, we elaborate on some of the challenges of what we call a ‘constructive critical geopolitics’. This is done through a selective inquiry into some of the key insights of the first generation of Frankfurt School critical theory, in particular as regards its reflections on political action and public engagement. We argue that incorporating some of the central tenets of critical theory into critical geopolitics has important implications for the subdiscipline – theoretically, empirically and as regards its applied/constructive role in society. Our argument seeks to contribute to the inclusion of constructive critical geopolitical analysis alongside the focus on thorough deconstruction of hegemonic knowledge productions, power relations and systems of exclusion. More concretely, drawing on critical theory as well as on geographic feminist and peace research, we call for more explicit normative positioning in critical geopolitical scholarship and suggest that we embrace the complexity of the geopolitical phenomena we study and, in so doing, to consider both their progressive and regressive aspects. We use our interest in processes of European (dis)integration, and the Brexit vote in particular, to highlight the need to further develop such multiperspectival analysis on highly complex and multifaceted geopolitical processes, such as European (dis)integration.

scholarly journals TEORI KRITIS DAN RELEVANSINYA UNTUK PENGKAJIAN TERHADAP REALITAS SOSIAL BANGSA INDONESIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Sermada Kelen Donatus
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Systemic Corruption

This essay elaborates the Critical Theory proposed by a group of German intellectuals who revived the anti-capitalist social theory of Karl Marx. They belong to what is called the “Frankfurt-School” which emphasises the contextualisation of Marx’ theory. Critical Theory emerged as a response to anti-socialist dominance in contemporary society. This essay takes up some of the ideas of Frankfurt-School members Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas. Critical Theory can impact greatly on how we read present-day Indonesian society which is being destroyed by the global capitalist-system which in turn is producing social diseases like systemic corruption. Keywords: Teori Kritis, sekolah Frankfurt, Karl Marx, Horkhmeimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, relevansi teori kritis, realitas sosial Indonesia.

scholarly journals Critical theory and the question of technology: The Frankfurt School revisited

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110020
Author(s):  
Gerard Delanty ◽  
Neal Harris
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Substantive Theory ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Historical Developments

Unlike the first generation of critical theorists, contemporary critical theory has largely ignored technology. This is to the detriment of a critical theory of society – technology is now a central feature of our daily lives and integral to the contemporary form of capitalism. Rather than seek to rescue the first generation’s substantive theory of technology, which has been partly outmoded by historical developments, the approach adopted in this article is to engage with today’s technology through the conceptual apparatus offered by the early Frankfurt School. This rationale is guided by the conviction that the core ideas of critical theory still offer a sound basis for assessing the nature of technology today. Through a reconstruction and engagement with some of the core concepts of first-generation critical theory, as well as the work of Bernard Stiegler and Andrew Feenberg, we can arrive at a more robust theory of technology, capable of critically interrogating the role of technology in contemporary society.

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