An Introduction to the Life and Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno with Dr. Kyla Bruff (Carleton U).

The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German philosophy. In this episode of the Young Idealist, I am joined by the talented Dr. Kyla Bruff who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bruff helps navigate the viewer through the complex life and philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno.
Kyla's presentation is profoundly detailed, articulate and a passionate display of how Adorno's thought as a philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and culture critic, is important for contemporary problems today.
Kyla Guides us through Adorno's relationship with the Frankfurt school, and also breaks down the critical, philosophical, and political implications of Adorno's thought in two of his main works: Minimal Moralia and Negative Dialectics. This leads our discussion to think through many diverse philosophers that were in constant dialogue with Adorno like; Marx, Hegel, Horkheimer, Kant, Schelling, Bloch, and Gershom Scholem.
Kyla Bruff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bruff’s areas of expertise are in classical German philosophy, Critical theory; 20th c. French Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Existentialism; and German Romanticism. Much of Dr Bruff's research investigates the metaphysical commitments and historical roots of contemporary ideological orientations. She is currently focusing on different understandings of nature in the critical theory tradition and their potential implications for how we think about the ecological crisis.
One of Dr. Bruff’s ongoing projects develops a critical analysis of populism out of the work of Theodor W. Adorno. She has presented multiple papers on Adorno’s aesthetics and his views of history and nature, as well as on the Schelling-Adorno connection, Messianism within the Frankfurt School, and on the work of Max Horkheimer.
Her chapter on “Schelling and the Frankfurt School” will be published this year in the Palgrave Schelling Handbook, of which she is a co-editor. She has additionally taught seminars on the Frankfurt School at Carleton University.
Dr. Bruff is also a Schelling expert and wrote her doctoral dissertation on Schelling’s political philosophy-the first standalone monograph on the topic in English.
Additionally, Dr. Bruff is committed to innovative, practical approaches to carrying out philosophy in public, as one can see through her activities as Co-Director of the ecological NPO For A New Earth (FANE).
She is also a translator of French and German texts into English. She has published translations, including the first appearance of Schelling’s Late Political Philosophy: Lectures 22-24 of the Presentation of the Purely Rational Philosophy in English. Finally, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Kabiri: The Official Journal of the North American Schelling Society, as well as the Treasurer and Secretary of the North American Schelling Society.
Dr. Kyla Bruff, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at Carleton University: Link carleton.ca/philosophy/people...
Kyla Bruff, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Personal Website:
www.kylabruff.com/
Kyla Bruff, Academia. carleton-ca.academia.edu/Kyla...
For A New Earth: Kyla Bruff. foranewearth.org/author/kyla/
Adorno's The F Scale Test for Fascist and Authoritarian Personality Studies:
www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
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[@ktheodor3968]

Really rich and concise insight into Adorno. On the messianic, as I am less familiar with Adorno, I wasn't aware that Adorno has it in his thought. The messianic(/pessimism), it seems, is shared by both Heidegger and Adorno although from different directions. As is shared by both a discontent with modernity, again from different orientations. I would have also liked in this talk some (even small) reference to some critique of Adorno, such as by Jürgen Habermas. Only by chance I happened on this channel -- I suppose the algorithm has its upsides, too, apart from making 'types' of us all. There's some great content on your channel, thank you. The Edith Stein video is my next port of call.

[@p89trd]

Great talk!

[@TheYoungIdealist]

@@p89trd Thank you for your comment! Kyla did such a great job breaking down Adorno. I also love her passion!

[@Jedi_Mind_]

Excellent convo Chris ! I definitely need to re-read “dialectic of enlightenment”
, that new schelling paper dr. Bruff has coming sounds fascinating !!! I can’t wait for it 👍

[@TheYoungIdealist]

Kyla is a brilliant scholar, as always I learnt so much listening to her passionately unpack Adorno's life and philosophy. Thanks for the constant support!

[@RolfGoebel]

Thanks so much for this wonderfully wide-ranging and insightful discussion! You've touched on many important issues in Adorno's thinking, but I wonder if one could foreground his philosophy and criticism of music more emphatically. For it here, it seems to me, that many central themes that you so nicely discussed--capitalist consumer society, commodity fetishism, social alienation, disjointments, the fragmentary, suppressed, and non-identical, etc.---are linked to other themes---the question of the subject/subjectivity, aesthetic autonomy, media technology, affective-bodily experience--that are absolutely central to Adorno. The beauty of his writings on music for me is that here, perhaps more than in some of his other, more well-known texts, the most abstract analytical and even metaphysical issues attain special concreteness and understandability, largely thanks to music's primarily sensuous presence as an art form that speaks to a wide range of diverse audiences--perhaps even in what very controversially has been called a "universal language"!

[@ili626]

16:30 This stood out to me when watching Raul Peck’s “Eliminate All The Brutes”, which chronicles numerous genocides, while the Enlightenment took place in the countries committing these acts against humanity.

[@thomascaminito3252]

This channel is an absolute blessing - thank you!

[@TheYoungIdealist]

Thank you so much for the kind comments and for the support much appreciated.

[@claudiamelica2154]

Very much appreciated

[@TheYoungIdealist]

Thank you Claudia, Kyla and I appreciate you as well. Thanks, for the kind support of the channel!

[@koadaboss5665]

👏

[@DEWwords]

Yes. Its religion. Messianic religion. Gog save us.