Naturgeschichte des Theaters
Between 1931 and 1932, German sociologist Theodor W. Adorno published a series of articles in various journals on the natural history of theater, in which he developed the theory that theater is characterized by the structures of a positivist culture industry, which it nevertheless attempts to mask...
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| Language: | deu |
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Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Recherches Germaniques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rg/12105 |
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| Summary: | Between 1931 and 1932, German sociologist Theodor W. Adorno published a series of articles in various journals on the natural history of theater, in which he developed the theory that theater is characterized by the structures of a positivist culture industry, which it nevertheless attempts to mask through the massive use of nature symbolism. This reification of nature into mere ornament reveals that society’s domination over nature or natural things is accelerating the mutilation of animism. But rather than considering this as fatalism, as is all too often the case, this paper seeks to show that, from his youthful writings onwards, the sociologist sought a utopian way out based on resubjectivization through nature. The natural history of theater that Adorno develops can thus be understood on the one hand as a poetic staging of a lost gaze, and on the other hand as the experience of human suffering that the sociologist wants to reveal. |
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| ISSN: | 0399-1989 2649-860X |