FS & Praxis

[filipe ceppas]

Thanks for your posts, Matthew. I could return to that issue later. I must
stop writing here for awhile in order to do a lot of work outside
computer... But I think Michael and Claus had stressed an important question
for the discussion to keep going, a question I'm really interested about
becasue I'm working on Adorno and education. Maybe I can add a quick note
about of Hohendahl's "[Adorno's] Prismatic Tought", which have an
interesting chapter called "Education after Holocaust", where he says:

"Adorno's social diagnosis burden his pedagogical project with a major
problem: the thesis of a totally administered society in which the
individual is conceived of as passive and manipulated leaves little room for
individual self-formation. The immobile contemporary society that Adorno's
theory insists on cannot, at least not in a systematic fashion, provide
space for transformations to take place; the fate of late capitalism is to
reproduce identical patterns." (University of Nebraska Press, 1995, p.68)

Hohendahl goes on to explore some "Adorno's psychoanalytical model of
enlightment",  but I think the question can be fully reavaliate if we take
the question Mike Peters advanced here, about the FS intepretation of late
capitalism as "totally administered society", which I think is not a
monolitical one on Adorno's work, as we can see on texts like
"Spätkapitalismus oder Industriegesellschaft?"

Michael, can you give us the address where we can find your text?

Thank you,

Filipe.