Re: ADORNO & JAZZ: JAUSS CONTRA ADORNO [12]

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 May 1999 Gelder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> can't happen to us' was mistaken. I realize that for
> English-speakers, (i.e. those not raised in the post-Kantian
> 'historicisation' of logical categories) the connection which the
> Frankfurt School posits between social psychology on the one hand
> (Freud, psychoanalysis) and the mass media on the other
> ('Kulturindustrie'-chapter from the *Dialectic of Enlightenment*) is
> a puzzling and unfamiliar one.

It's interesting that this connection was made, albeit tenuously, by the
famous New Left diagnosis that "the personal is political", i.e. that you
cannot talk about subjects in late capitalism without somehow dealing with
the social and economic categories involved. The entire history and praxis
of the Green Party, contradictory and limited though it is, is the
political attempt to concretely grasp this contradiction.

> If an invective-free forum could be created for the discussion of
> these issues, it seems to me that it would be worth doing, and I'd
> be prepared to do my part. But as long as the tone here is
> set by the Neanderthals, count me out.

No, no, don't allow the riff raff to set the terms of the discussion,
that's exactly what they want. Obviously, this listserv needs some sort of
moderation, or we need to find some other listserv devoted to serious
discussion of the Frankfurt School where we can all, as a recent book put
it, "Mit den Ohren denken" (I actually took a seminar from Richard Klein
when I was an exchange student in Freiburg).

-- Dennis