Open AccessThe "Primal Pseudos": Adorno's Concept of Nationalism
Author(s) -
Wacyl Azzouz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
krisis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.183
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1875-7103
pISSN - 0168-275X
DOI - 10.21827/krisis.41.1.37165
Subject(s) - contradiction , nationalism , impossibility , epistemology , term (time) , philosophy , sociology , political science , politics , law , physics , quantum mechanics
Even though the term “primal pseudos” appears only once in Theodor W. Adorno’s lecture History and Freedom, it is the key for the understanding of Adorno’s concept of nation and nationalism. In the aforementioned lecture the term “primal pseudos” describes the contradiction immanent in the concept of the nation. The critical investigation into the immanent contradiction of the concept of the nation discloses the impossibility of what nationalism wants rather than its falseness.