T. W. Adorno: letra en fisuras y partitura indeleble

Abstract

T. W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s criticism to modernity, radically presented in Dialectic of Enlightenment concentrates, towards the end of their lives, on two main problems: the problem of art and the problem of religion. Both constitute the only alternative ways which, at the same time, are desperate and unfeasing ways to the increasing irrationality and declive of modern world. This paper suggest that these two alternative ways proposed by the critical theory, the art and the religion dimension of the human being, question in fact, the starting point and the foundations of critical thought itself. As well, that if the problems of art and religion, as results of their intellectual work, do not question the foundation of the Frankfurt thought, they do constitute new elements toward a new and necessary theorization moment in social Sciences.