The Gehlen-Adorno radio debate staged paternalism against 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: GEHLEN: . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 616
Categorization
- SHARE: A nerdy framing detail: the 1965 Gehlen-Adorno radio debate rendered as Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor confronting a non-silent Jesus.
- XREF: Book itself frames this as the twentieth-century replay of the Grand Inquisitor parable, useful for anyone tracking the Adorno-Gehlsen polemic. — connects to: Gehlen and Adorno’s radio debate staged the clash of paternalism and emancipation; The Gehlen-Adorno radio debate recapitulated the Grand Inquisitor parable — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2481; Paternalist abolitionists reproduced rather than abolished racial hierarchy — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 907
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gehlen and Adorno’s radio debate staged the clash of paternalism and emancipation; The Gehlen-Adorno radio debate recapitulated the Grand Inquisitor parable — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2481; Paternalist abolitionists reproduced rather than abolished racial hierarchy — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 907
Broader Connections
- Gehlen and Adorno’s radio debate staged the clash of paternalism and emancipation
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