Adorno faulted Veblen for missing that only fascism makes technology equal itself.
Evidence
Had Hegel’s philosophy of history embraced this age, Hitler’s robot-bombs would have found their place beside the early death of Alexander and similar images, as one of the selected empirical facts by which the state of the world-spirit manifests itself directly in symbols. Like Fascism itself, the robots career without a subject. Like it they combine utmost technical perfection with total blindness. And like it they arouse mortal terror and are wholly futile. ‘I have seen the world spirit’, not on horseback, but on wings and without a head, and that refutes, at the same stroke, Hegel’s philosophy of history. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 68 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
Related
- Fascist technology refutes Hegel’s world-spirit philosophy of history. (similarity 0.81)
- Adorno faulted Veblen for demanding culture’s emancipation from tradition too soon (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Fascist technology refutes Hegel’s world-spirit philosophy of history.
#expands(0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 68