Theses Against Occultism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049813 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T W Adorno (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 1974 |
| Issue | 19 |
| Pages | 7-12 |
| Publication date | 1974-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0374019007 |
| OpenAlex | W2313211005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
I. The attraction to the occult is a symptom of the retrogression of consciousness. Consciousness has lost the strength to think the absolute and to bear the conditional. Rather than conceptually determining both in terms of unity and difference, consciousness mixes them indiscriminately. The absolute becomes a fact, the conditional becomes unmediated being [wesenhaft]. Monotheism disintegrates into a second mythology. In a social psychological study in the U.S., a respondent said: “I believe in astrology, because I don't believe in God.” Moral reason [rechtsprechende Vernunft] which had raised itself to the idea of the one God seems to have rushed into His fall
Absolute (philosophy · Astrology · Consciousness · Epistemology · Islam · Linguistics · Monotheism · Mythology · Respondent · Symbol (formal · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Hermes in the Academy
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Adorno vs. Levinas
Popular Occultism and Critical Social Theory
Critical Theory and the Sociology of Religion
Social Movement Theory and the Sociology of Religion
The Effects of Contextual and Psychological Variables on Extreme Right-Wing Sentiments
A Discourse of Despair
The Dialects of the Irrational
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2018 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |