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Theodor W. Adorno
Translated and with a Preface
bey Henry W. Pickford
Columbia University Press New York §— YAY88 INTERVENTIONS: Nive cetTicat woDEtS
‘being merely ase. Although it ss nor ben proven i indeed pos
sible that encounters with exhlbionists cause pychl durbence
shire ye it isnot oo fr ferched that sme gil and wares for poy
ebvious and whorver fall to rns te hely gly of repeeng
Ghanbein's appeasement What le frgonen ies merely
sereyl—the fa that reel this test was it rodued by Hider
‘Smpsizn iho brengh pon Erepe ec wht hs expanicdt wae
‘es an to prevent oo ng the appacen™ Even mae tan he
dksiny of snl nddols tithe destiny of otal entanglements
‘hat consites the nea of glk The revise the Ea coat
on damnit exvakess the Geman jst Nor erin en of
iolgy, beaut dogs of arg spe Bleer ave tay
served to rsh those who harbor no beter intentions tard feel
than do the Blac thoselves Bao interme ety Aecoring
toanbieraton tnt halen been ade daring thera of Hes he
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zur upon i avesares Along athe eonomi ery peso
bergen Est and Wen the fact arty has beter cures of ces
ith the masses than the Ess propaganda hag wheres dated on
‘he ctherhand ones ot yer peed he fe nn owen
‘he ame charac types are usec eo both for of sorta
“Auhostaranpenonltes ae gee msundrtod when they ae
‘onsite ron he vantage pint of perl plea mom ee
‘logy the wellknown oslaons of milion of vores Beore 1583
Serween the Nstional Soci and Commit pares smo assent
fom the soi pyclogel perspective cher Ameria sade hate
shown tht ds peony stuctre ds no corte ely th
Peltcal-econmic ceria fest be cine in tens of char ae
Such aa thinking oseted sng te dimensions of powered power
tees a sigiy and an nb trac conventional the mck of
selerefection and ulsmaely an ovr init experience Author
iri personalities dently hesalves with e-esing power ye
‘orto any parcalr contents, Basal hey poses Weak ge and
theeare eure he eompensaton of wanting chetes wend
finding security in great collectives The fae tat one met gues
everywhere who reremblethae nth fn Mr Wanderer ther
deo the depaiy othe word ws sch nar tthe sapere peat
traits ofthe German national characte” ei due racer the deny
ai those eonformite—vho before teat sledy have a comnecton
theleversa the wae spurt of plc power—a enti flo
‘The Meaning of Working Trough the Past %
x of totalitarianism. Furhermore, sa sion to live thatthe
[Navoral Socalist regime meant nothing but fear and suflering,
slthough it erin was tat even for many of own suportr. For
“ountes people fe was nota ll ad under asim, Teor sharp edge
‘wat wind only at afew and relatively well defined groups. Alter he
(cer of the er precoing Hider the redominanc fling, war that
“eveything is eingsaken sare of and etd not jst mean an deol
‘ogy of KAP tie and Hower boxes in he factories" Compared wih the
Iniserfire ofthe pst, to certain dgree Hilevs werld actualy pro-
tected its own people from the natural etastrophes of sce 1 which
they had been abandoned. A barbaric experiment in wate contol of
india oie olen antlpted theclstemanagement poids
Of today. The often dtd intgraon” the organizational ughtening of
‘he wee in he soca net that encommpasied everything als lforded
protection from the universal far of alng throug he mesh and disp
Draing For countess people semed tha the coldness of socal alien~
{lon hed been done sway with thanks tthe warmth of opethernes no
‘aver how manipulated an coneved the vllsch comamuniy of the
“nea the unequal waa lieand at he same meals the lien
‘ofan ld inded long fama evil bourgats dream. The system th
‘offered rach gatfetion crn concealed within sel the potential
forts own downfall, The economic efforecence ofthe Thitd Reich ix
lange measure was deo ts ertainent forthe war that brought abost
the catastrophe, But the ofeskened memory I mentioned eae resets
ncceping these argumens, le tenaciously persis in lonfying the
[National Socialist er hich flied the collective fess of power
sbored by those people who, individually, had no power and who
inded could fel any selworh tll only by vztue of such collective
power. No analysis however laminating can afterward remove the
Fealityof hi flilmen o the instinctual energies invested in. Even
Hider’ va banque gamble war nota iertonal at acumed to average
ber though atthe ime oa is fare seams to historical hindsight
soday. Hier ealclation o exploit the temporary advantage gained
‘ve the other nations than oa massively aecerate armaments peo
‘ram, was Ly no ens foolish in consideration of what he wanted 0
cieve Whoever dlver into the history ofthe Thied Rech and ese
Silly of she was wil eel again and again tae the particular moments in
‘which iter rfered delet seem to be acidntal and that only the
Course ofthe whole appears neeanry, the wtimae victory ofthe spe
‘or technial-economie potent ofthe vest ofthe wold that did not
‘rant tobe avallowed piso to speak a aril nese, but by 20
seans a discernible step-by-step logic The surviving sympathy for96 [WTERVENTIONS:NiN CRITICAL MODELS
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sil pi for by wan and hadi resentment kes evry happiness,
truant oh nyse tant pi wha eae
yoincfreprondh abut wold be at tere people who have othe
dng to eu the aged Seno that epcaly in eny’s Germany 50
hail sins teeth oan alleged materi feqendy ves
‘aselprocaimed profunday merely repre instincts Hated of
Comfort engenders in Germany dcomfort st pope sede ang
‘es the pst nts tage However hs malar doe hot al sue
Solely from dak and tobled waters bat ether once a rm fat
tore retonal one. The prosperity i dwt an som sowing and
Noone wuss nkmied duration fone seeks conten inthe ew
that vet ihe the Bc Fday of 1929 andthe rerun economic
‘ssl uy oa ety tly ce
theroaneeon strong tate power hone then expec wl frp
tccon if economics poltfedon o longer work: Even in te
tnd of prorperty even diving the temporary lor shoage the
‘majority of people probably el set that hey are poeta nem
oye, repens Of chant, and hence ely objects ot sbjcts of
fociey th isthe fly legit an resonable case thir dome
{ore le obvious tat at any given moment he deomfor can fe
mined wp. chaneledevard he pr and manplited inorder pro
‘oe reneval fhe dee
Today the fact wth nagesnguestonby blends wth the nation-
alsm ofthe soled underdeveloped courte which no however
Instead led “developing count Aleady daring the var the slo.
gars" aout Western placa and proltarian futon expres
Spey wk thre who lel shorehanged in he inp compen
Sepand a wanted plete abl i dan er
indo what een his tency hs aleady joined se a-nation
‘re Werte andecurent of ie German aon and wheter in Get
many itself there exists convergence fait and mans atonal
[Bm Nationa today iat once bth cle and uptodate Oba
‘eau the eof he compulsory cain f atone no pen loc
der th spremacy of the ont powerfl county was ead ie
‘sed bythe develpmen in weapons ecology lone the individual
Sovereign nasny leat in advo oie atop have fore
‘het hora sultan: The des of he nation n wk the coon
economia fe and independent rene one united pit
she er es fei to ae re
bvios poesia of sary a oly Ba nanan up to-te in
‘oars the anal and poycogalympremely inves den of
ration which tl expresses th comm otters thin he ince2 erenveNTIONS: NINE caricat MODELS
national economy, lone ha ficient force to mabiliz hundreds of ile
ons of people for goals they cannot immedately deny ws tel own
[Nationalism doesnot completly believe in itself anymore arid yet its &
pial necessity because iis the mst efective meats of motening
eople to insist on conditions tha ar, viewed objectively, obolte Ths
{2 why as something ile ease with tel intenonalyslf-dladed
fas taken on grotesque fares nowadays?" Admustedy nationals
the heritage of bckaiallyprntve tbl atid never lacked sch
trite altogether bur they were reined ins lng oe beam granted
‘the right ofthe indivdusl—also concretely asthe condition of collective
rosperty Only inan age in which it was already toppling hs atonal.
fom become completly sadsue and destructive = The rage of Hier
world aginst everyting that war diferent™naionlsm as «paranoid
slsioalsystem—oas already ofthis eaiber The appeal of precy
‘these features is hardly ay less oda. Pani, the persecution tats
‘tha perectes those upon whom it projects what it isl desires incon
‘agious. Collective delusions, ike ani-Serin, confirm the phology
of the individual, who shows the psychologically heen longer a match
forthe world ands thrown back upon an illusory inner ream: According
tothe thesis ofthe psychoanalyst Ent Simmel. hey may well pure
Jule person from becoming completely sa! To the extent tht the
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