Albrecht Wellmer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 280826 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Albrecht Wellmer |
| PRENOMES | Albrecht |
| SOBRENOME | Wellmer |
| ASSINATURA | WELLMER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
On Critical Theory
"Critical Theory" was originally an interdisciplinary project of the members of the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt in the twenties and thirties of the previous century, a project inspired by Marx' s critique of political economy. In this essay the term is used in a wider sense, including not only the work of later members of the Frankfurt Institute such as Habermas and Honneth, but also some related work done by philosophers outside th…
Autonomie et négativité de l'art
Les concepts de négativité et de critique sont centraux pour Adorno : ils renvoient à ce qui déborde la réalité factuelle en préservant la possibilité d'une société autre. Son esthétique explicite une idée de l'art comme débordement de « ce qui est », y compris de l'art lui-même. Simultanément, l'art est aussi fait social , il incorpore un élément historique. C'est en refusant la contrainte de l'empirique - et non pas en y abdiquant - que ce dern…
On Spirit as a Part of Nature
Adorno and the Problems of a Critical Construction of the Historical Present
This paper argues that Adorno's metaphysics can be rescued from the constellation of his messianic materialism. The recovery of metaphysics in this context also means that it is rescued as the basis of possible critique. Rescue here entails that the ideas of truth, freedom, justice and democracy should be seen as transcending whatever is empirically given, while remaining immanently operative within society. These ideas can still be drawn on for …
The Debate About Truth
This paper argues that the concept of truth cannot be explained with the help of the idea of justification under ideal conditions. Truth is not a regulative idea. The attempt to replace a metaphysical correspondence theory of truth with one that is conceptually epistemic does not provide an exit from metaphysics. Truth and its justification do not coincide with reference to the ascription of judgements and beliefs. To save the normative power of …
The Death of the Sirens and the Origin of the Work of Art
The story, as told in the twelfth book of the Homeric Odyssey, is well known: Circe had warned Odysseus of the irresistible power of the Sirens' song and had advised him, when passing by the Sirens to plug his men's ears with wax, so that his men would not hear the Sirens' song and would continue rowing. If tightly bound to the mast, Odysseus himself, although defenseless against the irresistible allure of the Sirens, would nevertheless not be ab…
The Persistence of Modernity
The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays, drawn from works by one of Germany's foremost philosophers, that go to the heart of a number of contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.Albrecht Wellmer defends the general thesis that modernity contains its own critique and that what has been called postmodernism is in fact a further articulatio…
Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment
Part 1 Critical theory and political practice: domination or emancipation? the debate over the heritage of critical theory, Helmut Dubiel disorder is possible - an essay on systems, laws, and disobedience, Gunter Frankenberg autonomy, modernity, and community - communitarianism and critical social theory in dialogue, Seyla Benhabib. Part 2 The sociology of political culture: bindings, shackles, brakes - on self-limitation, Claus Offe politics and…
The Persistance of Modernity
Comunicación y emancipación. Reflexiones sobre el «giro lingüístico» de la Teoría Crítica
Partiendo de las raíces hegelianas del pensamiento marxista, el autor intenta demostrar el reduccionismo implícito en el concepto marxiano de «praxis» con respecto a la dimensión simbólica de la acción humana, así como sus consecuencias epistemológicas y políticas. Como alternativa, defiende una reformulación de los supuestos básicos del materialismo histórico en términos teórico- comunicativos
Die Frankfurter Schule und die Folgen
Filosofía práctica y teoría de la sociedad
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation
No one has succeeded better than Theodor W. Adorno in analyzing modern culture with all its ambiguities — ambiguities which herald the possibility of an unleashing of aesthetic and communicative potentials as well as the possibility of a withering away of culture. Since Schopenhauer and Nietzsche — with whose aesthetics and epistemology Adorno's thought secretly communicates — no other philosophy of art, at least in Germany, has had such a sustai…
Art and Industrial Production
From its start in 1907, the German Arts and Craft Society (Deutscher Werkbund) attempted to set itself at the forefront of industrial progress. Its leaders believed that technological and esthetic modernism would eventually converge and they hoped that art and industry, separated since the end of the artisan era of production, would be reconciled. Similarly, the functions of die artist, technician and merchant — previously united in the person of…
Terrorism and Social Criticism
Conservative politicians, social scientists and journalists often accuse “leftist” social theories of having prepared the ground for terrorism. Representatives of such theories often find it difficult, if not impossible, to react to such accusations if they prematurely step onto their opponents' terrain and accept the defensive role of the accused. For instance, the charge is made that certain statements or arguments from Marx, Adorno or Marcuse …
The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory
Marxismusstudien
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
The Death of the Sirens and the Origin of the Work of Art
The story, as told in the twelfth book of the Homeric Odyssey, is well known: Circe had warned Odysseus of the irresistible power of the Sirens' song and had advised him, when passing by the Sirens to plug his men's ears with wax, so that his men would not hear the Sirens' song and would continue rowing. If tightly bound to the mast, Odysseus himself, although defenseless against the irresistible allure of the Sirens, would nevertheless not be ab…
On Critical Theory
"Critical Theory" was originally an interdisciplinary project of the members of the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt in the twenties and thirties of the previous century, a project inspired by Marx' s critique of political economy. In this essay the term is used in a wider sense, including not only the work of later members of the Frankfurt Institute such as Habermas and Honneth, but also some related work done by philosophers outside th…
Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation
No one has succeeded better than Theodor W. Adorno in analyzing modern culture with all its ambiguities — ambiguities which herald the possibility of an unleashing of aesthetic and communicative potentials as well as the possibility of a withering away of culture. Since Schopenhauer and Nietzsche — with whose aesthetics and epistemology Adorno's thought secretly communicates — no other philosophy of art, at least in Germany, has had such a sustai…
Adorno and the Problems of a Critical Construction of the Historical Present
This paper argues that Adorno's metaphysics can be rescued from the constellation of his messianic materialism. The recovery of metaphysics in this context also means that it is rescued as the basis of possible critique. Rescue here entails that the ideas of truth, freedom, justice and democracy should be seen as transcending whatever is empirically given, while remaining immanently operative within society. These ideas can still be drawn on for …
Autonomie et négativité de l'art
Les concepts de négativité et de critique sont centraux pour Adorno : ils renvoient à ce qui déborde la réalité factuelle en préservant la possibilité d'une société autre. Son esthétique explicite une idée de l'art comme débordement de « ce qui est », y compris de l'art lui-même. Simultanément, l'art est aussi fait social , il incorpore un élément historique. C'est en refusant la contrainte de l'empirique - et non pas en y abdiquant - que ce dern…
On Spirit as a Part of Nature
The Debate About Truth
This paper argues that the concept of truth cannot be explained with the help of the idea of justification under ideal conditions. Truth is not a regulative idea. The attempt to replace a metaphysical correspondence theory of truth with one that is conceptually epistemic does not provide an exit from metaphysics. Truth and its justification do not coincide with reference to the ascription of judgements and beliefs. To save the normative power of …
Comunicación y emancipación. Reflexiones sobre el «giro lingüístico» de la Teoría Crítica
Partiendo de las raíces hegelianas del pensamiento marxista, el autor intenta demostrar el reduccionismo implícito en el concepto marxiano de «praxis» con respecto a la dimensión simbólica de la acción humana, así como sus consecuencias epistemológicas y políticas. Como alternativa, defiende una reformulación de los supuestos básicos del materialismo histórico en términos teórico- comunicativos
Marxismusstudien
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory
Terrorism and Social Criticism
Conservative politicians, social scientists and journalists often accuse “leftist” social theories of having prepared the ground for terrorism. Representatives of such theories often find it difficult, if not impossible, to react to such accusations if they prematurely step onto their opponents' terrain and accept the defensive role of the accused. For instance, the charge is made that certain statements or arguments from Marx, Adorno or Marcuse …
Art and Industrial Production
From its start in 1907, the German Arts and Craft Society (Deutscher Werkbund) attempted to set itself at the forefront of industrial progress. Its leaders believed that technological and esthetic modernism would eventually converge and they hoped that art and industry, separated since the end of the artisan era of production, would be reconciled. Similarly, the functions of die artist, technician and merchant — previously united in the person of…
Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation
No one has succeeded better than Theodor W. Adorno in analyzing modern culture with all its ambiguities — ambiguities which herald the possibility of an unleashing of aesthetic and communicative potentials as well as the possibility of a withering away of culture. Since Schopenhauer and Nietzsche — with whose aesthetics and epistemology Adorno's thought secretly communicates — no other philosophy of art, at least in Germany, has had such a sustai…
Filosofía práctica y teoría de la sociedad
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Die Frankfurter Schule und die Folgen
Comunicación y emancipación. Reflexiones sobre el «giro lingüístico» de la Teoría Crítica
Partiendo de las raíces hegelianas del pensamiento marxista, el autor intenta demostrar el reduccionismo implícito en el concepto marxiano de «praxis» con respecto a la dimensión simbólica de la acción humana, así como sus consecuencias epistemológicas y políticas. Como alternativa, defiende una reformulación de los supuestos básicos del materialismo histórico en términos teórico- comunicativos
The Persistence of Modernity
The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays, drawn from works by one of Germany's foremost philosophers, that go to the heart of a number of contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.Albrecht Wellmer defends the general thesis that modernity contains its own critique and that what has been called postmodernism is in fact a further articulatio…
Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment
Part 1 Critical theory and political practice: domination or emancipation? the debate over the heritage of critical theory, Helmut Dubiel disorder is possible - an essay on systems, laws, and disobedience, Gunter Frankenberg autonomy, modernity, and community - communitarianism and critical social theory in dialogue, Seyla Benhabib. Part 2 The sociology of political culture: bindings, shackles, brakes - on self-limitation, Claus Offe politics and…
The Persistance of Modernity
The Death of the Sirens and the Origin of the Work of Art
The story, as told in the twelfth book of the Homeric Odyssey, is well known: Circe had warned Odysseus of the irresistible power of the Sirens' song and had advised him, when passing by the Sirens to plug his men's ears with wax, so that his men would not hear the Sirens' song and would continue rowing. If tightly bound to the mast, Odysseus himself, although defenseless against the irresistible allure of the Sirens, would nevertheless not be ab…
The Debate About Truth
This paper argues that the concept of truth cannot be explained with the help of the idea of justification under ideal conditions. Truth is not a regulative idea. The attempt to replace a metaphysical correspondence theory of truth with one that is conceptually epistemic does not provide an exit from metaphysics. Truth and its justification do not coincide with reference to the ascription of judgements and beliefs. To save the normative power of …
Adorno and the Problems of a Critical Construction of the Historical Present
This paper argues that Adorno's metaphysics can be rescued from the constellation of his messianic materialism. The recovery of metaphysics in this context also means that it is rescued as the basis of possible critique. Rescue here entails that the ideas of truth, freedom, justice and democracy should be seen as transcending whatever is empirically given, while remaining immanently operative within society. These ideas can still be drawn on for …
On Spirit as a Part of Nature
Autonomie et négativité de l'art
Les concepts de négativité et de critique sont centraux pour Adorno : ils renvoient à ce qui déborde la réalité factuelle en préservant la possibilité d'une société autre. Son esthétique explicite une idée de l'art comme débordement de « ce qui est », y compris de l'art lui-même. Simultanément, l'art est aussi fait social , il incorpore un élément historique. C'est en refusant la contrainte de l'empirique - et non pas en y abdiquant - que ce dern…
On Critical Theory
"Critical Theory" was originally an interdisciplinary project of the members of the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt in the twenties and thirties of the previous century, a project inspired by Marx' s critique of political economy. In this essay the term is used in a wider sense, including not only the work of later members of the Frankfurt Institute such as Habermas and Honneth, but also some related work done by philosophers outside th…
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