Open AccessThe Theory of Half-education (translation from German Maria Kultaieva)
Author(s) -
Theodor W. Adorno
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
fìlosofìâ osvìti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2616-7662
pISSN - 2309-1606
DOI - 10.31874/2309-1606-2017-20-1-128-152
Subject(s) - german , enlightenment , dialectic , autonomy , sociology , social theory , capitalism , epistemology , education theory , critical theory , social science , political science , philosophy , higher education , law , politics , linguistics
The theory of half- education was presented at first on the congress of German sociologists (1959). The tendencies regarded in this theory are really taking place in the contemporary education and have determining its crises, which becomes more evidence in the social and cultural contexts of the later capitalism. The theory of half-education is rethinking and actualizing of the conceptualizations of education and culture in the German idealism, Marxism and Freudianism, explicating the dialectic of Enlightenment through diagnostics of its degenerations and deformations in the options of the alien spirit, what has a very dangerous consequence of the liquidation of culture that is converting into the mas one. Half-education is parasitizing on the idea of education which has intrinsic contradictions: its conditions are the individual autonomy and social freedom, but it is depending on society. Id demands both: the individual autonomy and social adaptation. These contradictions can be overcame by the application of the negative dialectic, which joins complementary the critic of education and the critic of society opening new perspectives for them.