The "Primal Pseudos": Adorno's Concept of Nationalism
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https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.41.1.37165Keywords:
Adorno, Critical theory, NationalismAbstract
Even though the term “primal pseudos” appears only once in Theodor W. Adorno’s lecture History and Freedom, it is the key for the understanding of Adorno’s concept of nation and nationalism. In the aforementioned lecture the term “primal pseudos” describes the contradiction immanent in the concept of the nation. The critical investigation into the immanent contradiction of the concept of the nation discloses the impossibility of what nationalism wants rather than its falseness.
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