Theodor W. Adorno e a elaboração do passado na sociedade ad-ministrada

Abstract

“What it means to elaborate the past” poses a question that, as the author himself warns, requires clarification. However, beyond that, this issue demands a subsequent analysis of the social phenomena that followed it, as well as its placement within a broader historical and intellectual context, including within Theodor W. Adorno’s work. Without intending to exhaust the subject or present a conciliatory synthesis of the ideas present in Adorno’s writings, since many of them vary in the development of his work, the article considers art and literature as privileged means of elaborating the past, capable of highlighting the process of dehumanization of the individual in the administered society. The Adornian requirement not to forget the catastrophes committed the 20th century, finally, takes on different dimensions in contemporary times, added to issues such as the saturation of traumatic memories.