{"id":1799,"date":"2026-06-11T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:23:21","slug":"adornos-jargon-of-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/adornos-jargon-of-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorno&#8217;s Jargon of Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-11-at-11.16.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1800\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-11-at-11.16.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1228\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-11-at-11.16.00-PM.png 1228w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-11-at-11.16.00-PM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-11-at-11.16.00-PM-1024x650.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-11-at-11.16.00-PM-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-11-at-11.16.00-PM-800x508.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I plan over the next couple of days to resume my commentary on Adorno&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Jargon of Authenticity.\u00a0<\/em>I thought it might help in the meantime if I gathered in one place all of the entries thus far. So here, as a list, are links to the first nine entries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-1\/\">Day 1: Why is Adorno going after why Eugen Rosenstock and Franz Rosenzweig?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-2\/\">Day 2: The contradictions of existentialist religion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-3\/\">Day 3: Sacrificing thought to wish away change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-4\/\">Day 4: Heidegger checks in.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/critical-theory-and-philosophy\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-5\/\">Day 5: Their jargon &#8212; and ours.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-6\/\">Day 6: Repetitively produced profundity.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-7\/\">Day 7: Counterfeiting connection to the world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-8\/\">Day 8: Routinizing language against routine.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/jargon-of-authenticity-day-9\/\">Day 9: A jargon that sounds like everyday speech.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Readers who prefer a pdf formatted like a book <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2026\/06\/A-Commentary-on-the-Jargon-of-Authenticity-master-document.pdf\">can find that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I plan over the next couple of days to resume my commentary on Adorno&#8217;s\u00a0Jargon of Authenticity.\u00a0I thought it might help in the meantime if I gathered in one place all of the entries thus far. So here, as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/articles\/adornos-jargon-of-authenticity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}