User talk:Francetourdetour

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Rabbabodrool (talk) 16:09, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on the Adorno article[edit]

Excellent job you've done expanding and improving the Adorno article. This is an important topic and one that's been in serious need of improvement for awhile. Nice work, and keep it up! Sindinero (talk) 08:29, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Sindinero. Francetourdetour (talk) 23:37, 28 November 2011 (UTC)francetourdetour[reply]

Also: I'm trying to revise the rest of the article - I've only been able to do the biography and first paragraph of the "theory" section thus far. All those places in which "citiation is needed" are not my work - but I'll get to them.Francetourdetour (talk) 23:43, 28 November 2011 (UTC)francetourdetour[reply]

I look forward to seeing the new stuff! But I do think it would prop up the article even more if we had more citations in the biography section as well - not just to verify quotes, but claims and statements as well. A paragraph like the following, to take a random example, could use at least one footnote just so that readers with questions, doubts, or curiosities know where the article's getting this information:

At this point Adorno reversed his earlier priorities: now his musical activities came second to the development of a philosophical theory of aesthetics. Thus, in the middle of 1929 he accepted Paul Tillich's offer to present an Habilitation on Kierkegaard, which Adorno eventually submitted under the title The Construction of the Aesthetic. At the time, Kierkegaard's philosophy exerted a strong influence, chiefly through its claim to pose an alternative to Idealism and Hegel's philosophy of history. Yet when Adorno turned his attention to Kierkegaard, watchwords like "anxiety," "inwardness" and "leap"—instructive for existentialist philosophy—were detached from their theological origins and posed, instead, as problems for aesthetics. As the work proceeded—and Kierkegaard's overcoming of Hegel's idealism is revealed to be a mere interiorization—Adorno excitedly remarks in a letter to Berg that he is writing without looking over his shoulder at the faculty who would soon evaluate his work. Receiving favorable reports from Professors Tillich and Horkheimer, as well as Benjamin and Kracauer, the University conferred on Adorno the venia legendi in February 1931; on the very day his revised study was published, in March of 1933, Hitler seized dictatorial powers.

Sindinero (talk) 07:43, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]