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

在这个项目中，我首先试图系统地理解阿多诺关于文化的思想，其次，借助他的文化理论，对关于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。我写了两篇论文：《文化与野蛮的辩证关系》和《音乐的进步与启蒙的辩证法》。我可以把这些努力的成果写进我的书《在奥斯维辛之后写抒情诗是野蛮的吗？》“在第一年结束的时候。就阿多诺的研究而言，我可以参加在法兰克福举行的阿多诺逝世一百周年国际会议，并获得宝贵的建议，这些建议将用于我对阿多诺道德哲学的进一步研究。此外，我还阅读了许多关于阿多诺的新文献，这些文献是在这个纪念年出版的。因此，我写了一篇题为《分裂的生活——战后霍克海默》的论文，这将是我下一个大型调查项目的第一部分，该项目的主题是“法兰克福学派和shisau - o-kagaku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：关于文化理论的近期讨论》。基于这一理由，我现在继续对具体主题进行调查。首先，我写了一篇关于“公共性与文化”的论文，其中阿多诺关于非同一性的思想发挥了重要作用。其次，我开始了一项关于“表达自由和大众欲望”的新研究，这肯定会得到阿多诺关于大众媒介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.