Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality in America: Adorno, Alienation, and the Psychic Economy
2009; Telos; Volume: 2009; Issue: 149 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3817/1209149169
ISSN1940-459X
Autores Tópico(s)Contemporary Literature and Criticism
ResumoAbstract In the aphorism “The Health Unto Death,” in Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, Adorno issues a provocation and a challenge: “If such a thing as a psycho-analysis of today's prototypical culture were possible,” it would need to “show the sickness proper to the time to consist precisely in normality.”1 Investigating this unique form of illness would require questioning the traditional markers of health: “unruffled calm,” an “unhampered capacity for happiness,” “exuberant vitality,” and even the “champagne jollity” of “the regular guy” and the “popular girl” (MM 58, 63). Hence, Adorno identifies a need to explore “the inferno in which…
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