Spectacle, ideology, and rhetoric of the authoritarian personality
FROM WHICH PSYCHOLOGICAL PRECONDITIONS is it possible to come to a “rational” view of society – a society which, in its current mode of rationality, is arguably less than 200 years old? If such a view is putatively or provisionally achieved, to what extent are contributing psychogenetic factors overcome and left behind, and to what extent do they remain latent or dormant? These are theoretical questions that underlie The Authoritarian Personality study, which, according to the final words of Adorno’s “Remarks on the Authoritarian Personality” (published here for the first time), seeks to study modern society from the “receiver’s end.
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