Saying things that hurt

Adorno as educator

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4480975
AutoresVolker Heins (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Germany), Volker M Heins (0000-0002-8634-6605, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume110
Fascículo1
Páginas68-82
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513612450498
OpenAlexW3124100285
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas14

This article suggests reading Theodor Adorno not as a notoriously pessimistic sociologist but as a committed public educator. Partly drawing on still unpublished transcripts of lectures, public talks and radio broadcasts from the 1950s and '60s, the article offers an account of Adorno's concept and practice of a 'democratic pedagogy'. The key question is how we should understand the difference between Adorno the social philosopher, on the one hand, and Adorno the educator, on the other. It is argued that Adorno's pedagogical interventions are not a footnote to his social theory, but a key to understanding his entire oeuvre

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