Adorno on the Radio
Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6352149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shannon Mariotti (0000-0002-9334-8983, Southwestern University, corresponding author), Shannon L Mariotti (Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, USA) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 415-442 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591713505093 |
| OpenAlex | W2027872454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
This essay explores the political significance of two largely unexplored texts on American radio that Adorno originally composed in English after emigrating to the United States: Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory and The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses. Here, productively complicating the traditional image of him, Adorno translates his theory to a broader public in ways that reflect a desire to understand and inform democratic citizenship as enacted at the level of the everyday customs, conventions, and habits of the people. Ultimately, Adorno’s writings on radio in the United States show how he tries to strengthen the substantive practice of democracy through a unique form of democratic leadership as democratic pedagogy that represents the practical enactment of an early version of negative dialectics. With this justification for Adorno’s complicated commitments to democracy in mind, we might begin to read him as a twentieth-century democratic theorist and productively turn to an unlikely thinker, not just to read a message in a bottle but to help us chart our current position and navigate our future course
Aesthetics · Citizenship · Democracy · Democratic ideals · Democratic Theory · Dialectic · Epistemology · Media studies · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |