Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:12:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Retido.pdf: 19733 bytes, checksum: 6aad255badc436a06364517de2344ab6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-13 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The present PhD dissertation discusses the relationship between the Critical Theory of Society and empirical social research as elaborated in the work of the Institute of Social Research of Frankfurt, particularly after 1931, during the period in which it was under the direction of Max Horkheimer. Thus, it investigates to what extent such a nexus considered part of this theory s immanent coherence can be found in the research carried out in the United States and published as The Authoritarian Personality. The first chapter is dedicated to the reconstruction of Horkheimer s notion of interdisciplinary materialism. The discussion is based on his inaugural lecture as the Institute director, and on his essays published during the 1930s. In the second chapter, the main empirical social research projects carried out by the Institute members, in Germany and in the United States, are presented. The third chapter is dedicated to Theodor W. Adorno, his critique of Sociology and his views about the accomplishment of empirical research in the scope of Critical Theory. The last chapter is dedicated to an analysis of The Authoritarian Personality, seeking connections between the theory and procedures and instruments, and also between theoretical elaborations on their results. / A presente tese discute a relação entre a Teoria Crítica da Sociedade e a pesquisa social empírica no Instituto de Pesquisas Sociais de Frankfurt, a partir de sua direção por Max Horkheimer, e investiga em que medida esse nexo considerado interno à teoria pode ser encontrado na pesquisa realizada nos Estados Unidos e publicada sob o título de The Authoritarian Personality. O primeiro capítulo é dedicado à reconstrução de ideia de materialismo interdisciplinar, proposto por Horkheimer, a partir de seu discurso inaugural como diretor do Instituto e de seus textos teóricos produzidos na década de 1930. No segundo capítulo, são apresentadas as principais pesquisas sociais empíricas realizadas pelos intelectuais do Instituto tanto na Alemanha, quanto no exílio americano. O terceiro capítulo é dedicado às críticas e reelaborações de Theodor W. Adorno a respeito de sua visão sobre a realização de pesquisas empíricas no âmbito da Teoria Crítica. O último capítulo é destinado às análises de The Authoritarian Personality, em busca de suas conexões com a teoria a partir tanto de seus procedimentos e instrumentos, quanto de suas elaborações teóricas a respeito de seus resultados.

Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, inwieweit in Veröffentlichungen der (grundschul)pädagogischen Diskussion um die Vermittlung der Geschichte des Holocaust und Nationalsozialismus seit Ende der 1980er Jahre auf Adornos berühmte Radioansprache "Erziehung nach Auschwitz" von 1966 zugegriffen wird und in welcher Weise bzw. zu welchem Zweck dies geschieht. Anhand von vier typischen Bezugnahmen auf Adornos Vortrag wird gezeigt, dass ein solcher Zugriff nicht immer dem Inhalt des Vortrages gerecht wird, und dieser zum einen sehr unterschiedlich und zum zweiten häufig auf fragwürdige Weise ausgelegt und für die eigene Argumentation herangezogen wird. Um den Hintergrund für die pädagogische Rezeption von Adornos Ansprache zu erhellen, liefert die Arbeit einen historischen Überblick über die Entwicklung der grundschulpädagogischen Diskussion um die Frage, ob und wenn ja wie der Holocaust Gegenstand des Unterrichts in der Grundschule sein kann, und diskutiert dabei kritisch vier verschiedene Zielstellungen, die mit einer solchen Thematisierung verbunden werden: Demokratielernen, Gedenken, Fragen der Kinder bedienen sowie geschichtsdidaktische Absichten. Die inhaltliche Analyse jener Interpretationen von Adornos "Erziehung nach Auschwitz", die innerhalb der pädagogische Diskussion um eine Vermittlung der Geschichte des Holocaust vorgenommen werden, zeigt, dass die Zielvorstellungen des historisch-politischen Lernens häufig Leitmotiv für das Verständnis von Adornos Rede sind und sich dieses Verständnis vom Gegenstand einer „Erziehung nach Auschwitz“ bei den allermeisten Autor_innen auf eine „Erziehung über Auschwitz“ beschränkt.:Einleitung 2 Hauptteil A Theoretischer Teil 1 Theodor W. Adorno: „Erziehung nach Auschwitz“ 7 1.1 Entstehungskontext des Vortrages 7 1.1.1 Der bildungspolitische/historische Kontext 8 1.1.2 Im Kontext des Instituts für Sozialforschung (IfS) 9 1.1.3 „Adorno und die Pädagogik“ 14 1.2 Inhalt des Vortrages 17 2 Erziehung über Auschwitz 31 2.1 Erziehung über Auschwitz in der Grundschule 31 2.2 Ziele einer Erziehung über Auschwitz 41 2.2.1 Demokratiepädagogische Zielstellungen 42 2.2.2 Gedenkpädagogische Zielstellungen 54 2.2.3 Kindzentrierte, pädagogische Zielstellungen 56 2.2.4 Geschichtsdidaktische Zielstellungen 59 B Empirischer Teil 3 Vorbemerkungen zu den aufgefundenen Texten und Vorgehen 62 4 Erziehung über Auschwitz – zehn Autor_innen mit argumentativem Bezug auf Adorno 65 5 Vier Bezugspunkte in Adornos Vortrag 72 5.1 Das Verständnis von „Erziehung nach Auschwitz“ 72 5.2 Identifikation 89 5.3 Die „Wendung aufs Subjekt“ 94 5.4 Frühe Kindheit 98 Schluss 103 Literaturverzeichnis 108

La notion philosophique de mimésis, perçue à travers Adomo et Horkheimer, nous permettra de comprendre l'échec du projet émancipateur de la raison dans l'histoire et l'aporie qui se pose lorsque l'homme emploie la ruse pour se constituer en sujet. Cette étude fera également ressortir le revers dialectique de la ruse hégélienne de la raison. Nous verrons que, poussé par la nécessité de conserver sa vie, l'homme s'empare du pouvoir originel de la nature par le biais de la représentation mimétique. S'il renverse l'imagination mythique par le savoir et développe une identité, la ruse systématise toutefois le principe de domination hérité des pratiques sacrificielles. Autrement dit, la raison reproduit le pouvoir qu'elle renverse tandis que le sujet intériorise le sacrifice. À certains égards, le processus auto-constitutif de la raison et du sujet se révèle alors autodestructeur.

L’histoire du concept d’idéologie est riche des différentes définitions qui ont tenté de le circonscrire, en tension entre la description de visions du monde et la dénonciation de la « fausse conscience ». Chez les penseurs regroupés sous le nom d’ « École de Francfort », l’idéologie en vient à équivaloir au phénomène de l’industrie culturelle, c’est-à-dire la mise au service de la raison technique dans la production de la culture. Le statut du cinéma est intéressant à cet égard : non seulement est-ce un art né à l’époque industrielle et indissociable des possibilités techniques offertes par celle-ci, mais il a été mobilisé pour de nombreuses entreprises propagandistes, plus ou moins subtiles. La question directrice de l’interrogation est donc la suivante : selon la théorie critique de l’École de Francfort, le cinéma peut-il être considéré comme de l’art ou est-il confiné au domaine de l’idéologie ? Autrement dit, le cinéma peut-il revendiquer un statut qui ne ferait pas de lui qu’un support de la domination de l’humain par l’humain ? / The history of the concept of ideology is rich in different definitions that have attempted to circumscribe it, in a tension between the description of different worldviews and the denunciation of “false consciousness.” For the thinkers grouped under the name “Frankfurt School” ideology comes to equate the phenomenon of the Culture industry, that is to say, technical reason put at the service of the production of culture. The status of film in interesting in this regard: not only is it an art born in the industrial age and inseparable from the technical possibilities offered by the industry, but it has also been used for numerous, more or less subtle, propagandist undertakings. The leading question of our inquiry is thus the following: according to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, can film be considered as a genuine form of art or is it confined to the realm of ideology? In other words, can film claim a status which would not make it solely a support of human-over-human domination?

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<p>Drawing from the theoretical foundations of the “critical theory” of the Frankfurt School and the media ethnographic “cultural studies” approach of the british Birmingham School, this study attempts to sketch out a media theoretical overview of the contemporary state of media culture. Using the term convergence culture as the foundation, this study offers a theoretical background to the two contemporary streams that are the significant and distinct tendencies of convergence culture: intermedial convergence, its contemporary state and historical tendencies that can be traced back using the past media theoretical approach of the Frankfurt School, and cultural convergence, its contemporary state and historical tendencies, which lineage in a media theoretical context can be traced back to the british ethographic “cultural studies” field. Using contemporary drama serials to identify and pinpoint these two stream, this study shows how intermedial convergence expresses itself today through media conglomeration in terms of branding, product placement and marketing as the result of the “completed” convergence between screen culture and popular music as the current defining state of commodity culture. Using the contemporary british drama serial Doctor Who I examine the processes of meaning making among members of the television series fan culture on the popular video content page youtube.com as expressions of cultural convergence.</p><p>This study argues how the skills and talents developed in the interaction with popular culture and in a process of interaction between fans and participants (collective intelligence and participatory culture), will have an impact on the institutionalized knowledge “from above” and in a collective process will seep over to other fields of expertise. The study also argues, as a consequence of convergence culture, that in the contemporary state of online practices, social networking and in our interactions with digital media content, a mandatory “presence” has been created where we today are defined more through our online selves and these practices, than the ones that used to define us in our “physical” lives: “The medium is no longer just the message, we are living in a state where there is only messages”.</p>

Drawing from the theoretical foundations of the “critical theory” of the Frankfurt School and the media ethnographic “cultural studies” approach of the british Birmingham School, this study attempts to sketch out a media theoretical overview of the contemporary state of media culture. Using the term convergence culture as the foundation, this study offers a theoretical background to the two contemporary streams that are the significant and distinct tendencies of convergence culture: intermedial convergence, its contemporary state and historical tendencies that can be traced back using the past media theoretical approach of the Frankfurt School, and cultural convergence, its contemporary state and historical tendencies, which lineage in a media theoretical context can be traced back to the british ethographic “cultural studies” field. Using contemporary drama serials to identify and pinpoint these two stream, this study shows how intermedial convergence expresses itself today through media conglomeration in terms of branding, product placement and marketing as the result of the “completed” convergence between screen culture and popular music as the current defining state of commodity culture. Using the contemporary british drama serial Doctor Who I examine the processes of meaning making among members of the television series fan culture on the popular video content page youtube.com as expressions of cultural convergence. This study argues how the skills and talents developed in the interaction with popular culture and in a process of interaction between fans and participants (collective intelligence and participatory culture), will have an impact on the institutionalized knowledge “from above” and in a collective process will seep over to other fields of expertise. The study also argues, as a consequence of convergence culture, that in the contemporary state of online practices, social networking and in our interactions with digital media content, a mandatory “presence” has been created where we today are defined more through our online selves and these practices, than the ones that used to define us in our “physical” lives: “The medium is no longer just the message, we are living in a state where there is only messages”.

Within the science fiction genre, utopian as well as dystopian experiments have found equal representation. This balanced treatment of two diametrically opposed social constructs results from a focus on the future for which this particular genre is well known. Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17, and Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby, more aptly characterized as speculative fiction because of its use of magic against scientific social subjugation, each tackle dystopian qualities of contemporary society by analyzing the power that language possesses in the formation of the self and propagation of ideology. The utopian goals of these texts advocate for a return to the modernist metanarrative and a revision of postmodern cynicism because the authors look to the future for hopeful solutions to the social and ideological problems of today. Using Slavoj Žižek’s readings of Jacques Lacan and Theodor Adorno’s readings of Karl Marx for critical insight, I argue these four novels imagine language as the key to personal empowerment and social change. While not all of the novels achieve their utopian goals, they each evince a belief that the attempt belies a return to the modernist metanarrative and a rejection of postmodern helplessness. Thus, each novel imagines the revision of Žižek’s big Other through the remainders of Adorno’s inevitably failed revolutions, injecting hope in a literary period that had long since lost it.

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L’histoire du concept d’idéologie est riche des différentes définitions qui ont tenté de le circonscrire, en tension entre la description de visions du monde et la dénonciation de la « fausse conscience ». Chez les penseurs regroupés sous le nom d’ « École de Francfort », l’idéologie en vient à équivaloir au phénomène de l’industrie culturelle, c’est-à-dire la mise au service de la raison technique dans la production de la culture. Le statut du cinéma est intéressant à cet égard : non seulement est-ce un art né à l’époque industrielle et indissociable des possibilités techniques offertes par celle-ci, mais il a été mobilisé pour de nombreuses entreprises propagandistes, plus ou moins subtiles. La question directrice de l’interrogation est donc la suivante : selon la théorie critique de l’École de Francfort, le cinéma peut-il être considéré comme de l’art ou est-il confiné au domaine de l’idéologie ? Autrement dit, le cinéma peut-il revendiquer un statut qui ne ferait pas de lui qu’un support de la domination de l’humain par l’humain ? / The history of the concept of ideology is rich in different definitions that have attempted to circumscribe it, in a tension between the description of different worldviews and the denunciation of “false consciousness.” For the thinkers grouped under the name “Frankfurt School” ideology comes to equate the phenomenon of the Culture industry, that is to say, technical reason put at the service of the production of culture. The status of film in interesting in this regard: not only is it an art born in the industrial age and inseparable from the technical possibilities offered by the industry, but it has also been used for numerous, more or less subtle, propagandist undertakings. The leading question of our inquiry is thus the following: according to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, can film be considered as a genuine form of art or is it confined to the realm of ideology? In other words, can film claim a status which would not make it solely a support of human-over-human domination?