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Qualche anno fa, grazie al cortese e amichevole gesto della signora Ursula Sinzheimer-Potsma, sono stati trasferiti da Haarlem a Francoforte i documenti di suo padre, Hugo Sinzheimer’, che si trovavano presso di lei. Nel fondo si trovano materiali di gran de interesse, utili a chiarire sia la posizione dell’autore nell’am bito della scienza giuslavoristica weimariana, sia i fondamenti della sua dottrina del diritto del lavoro, sia, infine, la sua sociologia del diritto. Si pone peraltro la domanda se, ai giorni nostri, l’approccio scientifico di Sinzheimer e la dottrina che ne è derivata possano ancora essere considerati attuali.
Nonostante una carrieraaccademica costruita e fondata nellaScienza del diritto, "in quanto giurista" Max Weber viene pochissi-mo preso in considerazione, in particolare proprio daparte della ri-cerca tedesca. Si cercheràqui di mostrare, partendodalla sua Dis-sertazione in Storia del diritto, l’impronta ricevutada Weber dal-l’ultima fase della Scuola storica e il significato che ciòebbe per il suosuccessivo lavoro come sociologo del diritto ma anche per il tipoparticolare della sua costruzione concettuale sociologica. ...
As an exemplum of that kind of “modern” art, in terms of Adorno, Kafka’s work is marked not only by its strictly “realistic” character, but also by the unavoidable critical and testimonial value of that realism. According to this perspective, both in Adorno and in Benjamin the testimonial aspect of Kafkian writing – that is of a writing as “dialectical image”, as memory of the unfullfilled possibility – it’s all the same not with its symbolical or “epiphanical” aspect but instead with its “allegorical” one.
Starting from Warburg, the distinguishing mark of an image, considered as identity-difference of visible and invisible, is its offering itself as an implementation of a temporality, and at the same time of a memory that is immanent in the sensible structure of the image. It’s what we find both in Benjamin and in Adorno: in both cases, it is just because the image is marked by a “internal time” that it is able to have a critical function towards reality, and at the same time an utopian character that is all the same with its non-renounceable testimonial task.
This study points out the methodological centrality assumed by the notion of “physiognomy”, both in Benjamin and in Adorno, namely the idea that the forms of the works of art, and generally those of the visual phenomena, are direct “expression”, in a micro-monadological way, of an historical-social sense, not otherwise attainable. On the one hand Benjamin’s physiognomy shows a particular interpretative “openness” to its objects, on the other that of Adorno remains subjected to an epistemological model of “totality”, from the Hegelian-Marxian tradition, which risks compromising the hermeneutic efficacy of its own original philosophical approach.
Both Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno consider ‘aesthetical experience’ as an “image experience” assuming a power of images “to set free forces” directed to produce or support aesthetical-political (Benjamin) or aesthetical-critical (Adorno) requirements. Profane illumination, ‘thinkimages’, phantasmagory, dialectical images, decayed ‘aura’ and technicalized images in Benjamin’s theory of aesthetical modernity. Expressive feature or “mimetic” eloquence in nature and art countering reality, dismantled ‘aura’ in contemporary desacralized work of art, but also persisting ‘aura’ in its meaningful dimension in Adorno’s aesthetical theory.
Nella sua opera estrema, Teoria estetica, Adorno menziona Paul Valéry una ventina di volte. Già questo fatto basterebbe ad attestare l’importanza che Valéry riveste per la riflessione adorniana sull’arte e sull’estetico. Infatti Teoria estetica, sebbene costituita nel suo complesso da un corpus testuale di mole imponente, è avara di citazioni e sono tutto sommato pochi gli autori (sia artisti sia filosofi) i cui nomi ricorrono numerose volte tra le sue pagine. Oltre a Kant e Hegel, e oltre a Benjamin, più frequenti di Valéry sono solo Baudelaire, Beckett, Beethoven e Schönberg, mentre all’incirca egualmente frequenti sono Brecht, Goethe e Nietzsche. Vista la parsimonia con la quale Adorno centellina i propri referenti espliciti nel momento in cui compie il massimo sforzo di condensazione teorica di una lunga riflessione sull’estetico, sarebbe avventato relegare il dato della frequenza del nome di Valéry in Teoria estetica nel novero degli accidenti meramente estrinseci. L’impressione della rilevanza di tale riferimento risulta poi sicuramente rafforzata se si vanno a leggere i luoghi in cui viene effettuato il rimando a Valéry.
In order to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Benjamin's death, the conference "Dialectic images and sudden constellations: Warburg, Benjamin, Adorno" was held in Florence. The idea, common to the three authors, of a truth content that can only be realised in its concrete and istantaneous configuration, was embodied here in the form of a "philosophical concert", where contributions by philosophers, philologists and historians of arts and architecture succeeded each other.
The paper aims to investigate the impact of Axel Honneth’s work – in particular his theory of recognition – within sociology. After indicating the sociological elements of his theoretical proposal and comparing some current discussions, the paper sketches out the main empirical applications of the theory of recognition: contemporary identitarian configurations, the social exclusion of minority groups, social movements, intercultural relations and the changes in the world of work in late modern society. In the final part, the paper highlights some developments in contemporary sociological theory that could limit the sociological reception of Honneth’s work.