Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the Educational Sciences Early Critical Theory: Theodor W. Adorno on Education Krassimir Stojanov, University of Oulu, May 2009

Contents Educational Works of Adorno Authoritarian Character and Self- Weakness as Educational Issues Education as Cultivation of Resistance Cultural Industry and the Half-Education

Educational Works of Adorno Erziehung zur Mündigkeit Eine Theorie der Halbbildung

Authoritarian Character and Self- Weakness as Educational Issues The Concept of Authoritarian Personality The Causes of Self-Weakness Education as Making Authentic Experiences Education as Cultivation of Resistance

Cultural Industry and the Half- Education Cultural Industry as Reification Encountering the Higher Culture as Tool against Half-Education