Adorno's Authenticity text...

[Lou Caton]

Hi Ralph and list,

Below you mention that Bourdieu and Lukacs have critiques either on the notion
of authenticity itself or on Adorno's text on authenticity.  I wasn't quite sure
which it was (?)  In either case, I'm still interested.  Could you send along
the details so that I might print a copy of either one?  Have you read them?
What do you think?

Lou Caton
lcaton@wisdom.wsc.ma.edu


Ralph Dumain wrote:

> I see someone else already sent you the needed paragraph.  I would love to
> know your thoughts on this book.  English is my native language, but I
> couldn't make heads or tails out of Jameson's book, and I loathe the way he
> writes.  So maybe I can learn something this way.
>
> Right now I'm reading Adorno's THE JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY, an interesting
> approach.  It might be worthwhile comparing it to the critiques done by
> Bourdieu and Lukacs.  Bronner also wrote a good chapter on
> Heidegger.  Adorno's approach focuses on the deceptiveness of
> existentialist language.
>
> At 05:29 PM 4/19/2003 -0300, filipe ceppas wrote:
> >Dear list members,
> >
> >I am reading Jameson, Late Marxism, Adorno or the persistence of the
> >dialectic, in Portuguese. I wonder if someone could do me a great favour
> >sending me the last paragraph of Chapter 4 (use and abuse of cuture critic)
> >in English. And I would love to hear any comments about Jameson's ideas on
> >Adorno. So far, I think it is a good reavaliation of some important
> >questions and problems of Adorno's philosophy. Do I have to be prepared for
> >the whipping post by saying it? :-)
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >
> >Filipe
>
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