ADORNO I TILLICH O KULTURI
ADORNO AND TILLICH ON CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: Aim of this paper is centered around the fact that even a cursory overview of Adorno’s and Tillich’s written opus provides a clear insight into the phenomenon of culture as a vital part of their scholarly attention. In times when “thinking” is reduced almost exclusively at its “market value”, a subject of “culture” seems like appropriate topic. The purpose of intellectual dismantling of “instrumentalization of culture” requires that theory of culture of both authors is thought of as a strict opposition to the same instrumentality. Whether we consider Adorno’s concept of cultural industry as an indicator of a regression of enlightened reason or Tillich’s idea of the theology of culture as a philosophical and theological questioning of the background of cultural religious behavioral patterns, culture in both these intellectual endeavours reveals itself at the same time as an indicator and as a bearer of meaning. In conclusion, critique of culture manifests itself as an perpetually necessary enterprise because a cultural politics that does not tolerate its criticism has all the prerequisites of becoming a total ideology.

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