Adorno's theory of culture and the contemporary discussion on culture

在这个项目中，我试图首先系统地了解阿多诺的文化思想，其次借助他的文化理论，对有关文化的实际讨论进行探究。在这个项目的第一年，我集中精力解决了第一个问题。我写了两篇文章：《文化与野蛮的辩证关系》和《音乐的进步与启蒙的辩证法》。我可以在第一年年底在我的书《奥斯威辛之后写一首抒情诗只是野蛮吗？》中展示这些努力的成果。就阿多诺研究而言，我可以参加阿多诺逝世一百周年之际在法兰克福举行的国际阿多诺会议，并获得宝贵的建议，这些建议将在我进一步研究阿多诺道德哲学时运用。此外，我还读到了许多在这一纪念年出版的有关阿多诺的新文献。结果我写了一篇论文《分裂的生活——战后的霍克海默》，这将是我下一个大型调查项目的第一部分，主题是“法兰克福学派和紫苏科学集团”。对于我的第二个主题，我在第一年写了一篇调查论文“文化作为小说最近对文化理论的讨论”。基于此，我现在继续对特定主题进行调查。首先，我写了一篇关于“公共性与文化”的论文，其中阿多诺的非同一性思想发挥了重要作用。其次，我开始了一项关于“言论自由和大众欲望”的新研究，这肯定会得到阿多诺关于大众传媒和大众文化的社会学理论的支持。

In this project I tried, in the first place, to understand Adorno's thought about the culture systematically and, secondly, with his theory of culture in my hand, to make inquiries into the actual discussions about the culture. I grappled with the first problem intensively in the first year of this project. I wrote two essays : 'The dialectic relation of culture to barbarism' and 'The progress of music and the dialectic of enlightenment'. I could present the fruits of the efforts in my book "Is it only barbarous to write a lyric after Auschwitz? " at the end of the first year. As far as the Adorno-studies concerned, I could take part in the international Adorno conference in Frankfurt, which was held by occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his death, and gained precious suggestions which I will make use of in my further study about the moral philosophy of Adorno. Furthermore I could read many new literatures about Adorno which were published in this memorial year. As the result I wrote a paper 'The divided life -Horkheimer in the postwar years', which will be a first part of my next large investigation project about the theme 'The Frankfurter school and the Shisou-no-kagaku-Groupe'. To my second subject, I wrote a survey paper 'Culture as Fiction Recent discussion on the theory of culture' in the first year. On that ground I now continue my investigations into the specific themes. First, I have written a paper about the 'Publicness and culture', in which Adorno's thought on the nonidentity plays an important role. Secondly, I started a new study about 'The freedom of expression and the desire of the masses' which will be surely supported by Adorno's sociological theories about the mass media and the mass culture.