The problem of authenticity: Adorno vs. Heidegger

This article is devoted to the critique of some ideological implications of both the grave German philosophyand literature of the XIX century and perfectly light and popular cultural phenomena as wellas daily communications which presented by the book Jargon of Authenticity by Theodore Adorno.The article is dealing with the critique of M. Heideggers existential philosophy and first of all with themain notion of this philosophy which is Authenticity. This special interest is implicated by the followingAdornos point of view. He values the Heideggers philosophy as more complicated and subtlethan philosophy of O.F.Bollnow, K.Jaspers and other less reputed philosophers and literati. But it doesnot mean that the Heideggers philosophy is more pure. Per contra: the ideological content of theHeideggers philosophy is more dangerous whereas it is not straightforward, not unsophisticated, notclumsy.The Adornos arguments may be classified to the four categories:1. The arguments of absence of pure existential experience. There are exists only social experience.The existential experience is substituted by the experience of the marginal social groups, by theexperience of the antecedent ages, by the psychological experience.2. The arguments connected with the language of the description of the experience. Adorno considerssuch language as mythological one. Such language is archaic and provincial. The words of thislanguage break the confines of their meanings.3. The arguments connected with the communicative practices. Heidegger doesnt want be comprehended.He pretends to the selectness. The construction of his thought negatives the opponentsposition by means of privilege of the question in comparison with the answer.4. The arguments connected with the impossibility of the ontologic researches after the Kantiantranscendental turn.The main Adornos idea is following: the Heideggers philosophy confronts to the social order bymeans of declarations. But it support the social order as a matter of fact. The Heideggers philosophysubstitutes the real suffering, mischief, death by their metaphysical analogs. Thereby the Heideggersphilosophy preserves and absolves the social order.

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