T. W. Adorno ir M. Horkheimerio ideologijos kritika: viešnagė „Didžiajame prarajos viešbutyje“?
The Critique of Ideology in Adorno and Horkheimer: Stay in “The Grand Hotel Abyss”?

Summary/Abstract: In this text, we analyze one particular moment in the history of the concept of ideology – the notion of ideology as unreflected domination formulated by Adorno and Horkheimer in the Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), which also remains valid in Adorno’s later thought. On the one hand, on the conceptual level, we try to demonstrate the tension that characterizes the double relationship – both of continuity and radical innovation – between Critical Theory and Marxist thought. On the other hand, taking into consideration the critical theorists’ observation that the concepts of critical theory are not neutral, but rather immanently driven towards social emancipation, we question the relationship that the critical theorists’ concept of ideology bears with the sphere of practice, i.e. we question its political agency. We also demonstrate a contradiction immanent to Adorno’s (and Horkheimer’s) thought and relative to the very distinction between the spheres of theory and political practice.

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