What does Adorno think is wrong with reification and commodification? And does he offer a plausible response?

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023 Discipline: Philosophy

Write a maximum 3500-word essay about the question in the topic. This essay is a historical philosophy essay, so needs to include an exposition on what the society Adorno lived in looked like, what his philosophical influences were, (primarily Marx and Hegel), and what philosophical insights he was writing about, in accordance with reification and commodification. The essay needs to reference:

1. Adorno’s Minima Moralia.  (focus on passages provided – Adorno 3. Reification and Commodification + Minima Moralia Extra)
2. Adorno and Horkheimer’s The Dialectic of Enlightenment. 
3. Georg Lukacs: History and Class Consciousness – Studies in Marxist Dialectics
4. Arato: Lukacs’ Theory of Reification (Adorno 3. arato)
5. Grodin on reification: Reification from Lukacs to Habermas
And must include general knowledge  (and referencing if appropriate) on:
-Hegel: Read Hegel Intro by Beiser 
– Marx: The opening chapters of Capital I give Marx’s classic analysis of the ‘commodity’. 
Available online: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdfhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdfhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdfhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdfhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdf
Read: Intro to Lukacs
-Freud: Terminology and how he influenced the other thinkers at the time.
– Frankfurt School and Critical Theory: have general knowledge 

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