Adorno's microanalysis of a deformed ethical life of private existence points to a disenchanted rationalized morality in a disenchanted natural world that is represented as a casual order knowable in mathematical terms.
It is this rationalized instrumental reason that is deployed to rationalize the major institutions of society into the modern bureaucratic legal-rational form---Weber's iron cage of modernity dominating persons.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at September 7, 2005 12:07 AM | TrackBack