Barbarians and Civilizational Rhetoric from the End of the Cold War to the Present

Authors
Publication date 2023
Host editors
  • M. Winkler
  • M. Boletsi
Book title Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts. - Vol. II
Book subtitle Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
ISBN
  • 9783476046109
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783476046116
Series Schriften zur Weltliteratur
Chapter 6.4.1
Pages (from-to) 256-286
Number of pages 31
Publisher Berlin: J.B. Metzler Verlag
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract On March 25, 1964, Adorno dreamt he had gathered a mob in order to kill a psychotherapist. This psychotherapist was about to give a lecture on Schubert, but first wanted to create some ‘atmosphere’ by singing one of Schubert’s songs in a fashion that the dreaming Adorno deems a Hollywood-like smudging of the difference between this artform and an operetta. Everyone tolerating such barbarity—so Adorno’s dream avatar argues to agitate the audience—would be a barbarian themselves.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04611-6_2
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