Gehlen and Adorno’s radio debate staged the clash of paternalism and emancipation
Evidence
A debate between Gehlen and Adorno broadcast on the radio in 1965 turned at its close into a confrontation between two classic standpoints. The dialogue sounded at this point as if the Grand Inquisitor from Ivan Karamazov’s story in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov was talking to a Jesus who was no longer silent: . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2481 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Gehlen-Adorno radio debate recapitulated the Grand Inquisitor parable — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2481
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Broader Connections
- The Gehlen-Adorno radio debate recapitulated the Grand Inquisitor parable
#expands(0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2481