On the whole, as in each detailed part, theoretical study consists everywhere equally of unerring devotion to the actual and of constantly renewed value judgements.
Ha ha ha, I'm in the middle of a huge Horkheimer/Marcuse/Adorno finals clusterfuck right now. My mind just keeps going AUTOCHTHONOUS NECESSITY PERICLEAN AUTONOMY RADICAL FALSITY OF BEING BEING NEGATION.
You mean aside from the utter incomprehensibility and the sexism? ;) Mostly because I think he indicts culture and the cultural shifts into capitalism from a lens that completely ignores the practical concerns of, well, REALITY.
The UNENDING SEXISM, OMG. I have notes scrawled all over my copy of Eclipse of Reason about this. "LOLOL A MAID, YOU FUCKING FUCK?"
But yeah, I agree so so much. I appreciate the work critical theorists did but take all kinds of issue with their stance on art and ~the masses. Particularly in Horkheimer and Adorno, there are all kinds of elitist, Hegelian echoes that make me uncomfortable.
You should see my copy of Dialetic of Enlightenment, which is Horkheimer and Adorno WORKING TOGETHER TO OPPRESS THOSE SILLY FLIGHTY WOMEN WHO CONSUME EVIL INSIPID MASS MEDIA EVERYWHERE. >E
My favourite thing ever is people excusing the sexism, because that's just how it was back then. They didn't have female contemporaries or predecessors, because come on, lolol lady Marxists?
"On the whole, (well, not really on the whole, since it contains a lot of different areas each with their own details, but within each area) theoretical study is about making decisions about value as evenhandedly and widely as possible, paying as much attention to what's real and not abstract or constructed."
"also herp derp, I don't understand how positivism can be reconciled with social theories, and wittgenstein confuses me. therefore I'm latching onto Marx, who was much smarter than me, and mutating his ideas until almost nothing remains, but calling it marxist because I use all his vocabulary and structural framing"
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What's your particular Horkheimer beef?
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But yeah, I agree so so much. I appreciate the work critical theorists did but take all kinds of issue with their stance on art and ~the masses. Particularly in Horkheimer and Adorno, there are all kinds of elitist, Hegelian echoes that make me uncomfortable.
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"also herp derp, I don't understand how positivism can be reconciled with social theories, and wittgenstein confuses me. therefore I'm latching onto Marx, who was much smarter than me, and mutating his ideas until almost nothing remains, but calling it marxist because I use all his vocabulary and structural framing"