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Abstract

The concept of fetishism appears in the work of two authors whose influence in the Theodor W. Adorno’s theory is inestimable: Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. This concept has two meanings very different in the work of these thinkers, and this impels for the question about the usage of the concept of fetishism for Adorno, mainly if he adopts the definition of Freud or Marx. In this paper, I argue that Adorno repossess and join elements of the Marxian and Freudian conceptions, and for this would be a mistake reduce or equate your use of the term fetishism with the precedent use of the two authors recently evoked.  Indeed, the combination doesn’t result in a specie of medium, but, on the contrary, in a third meaning that denotes the process whereby something that would be a simple mean is become in a end. With this meaning, such concept is of crucial importance for the critical apparatus of the Frankfurtian philosopher both in the critique to rationality satisfied with the identification, and in the critique of production for production’s sake.

Keywords: Fetishism, Theodor W. Adorno, Critical theory, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud.

 

 

   
   
   
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