"EDUCATION FOR CONTRADICTION AND RESISTANCE": A CONTRIBUTION TO THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ADORNO'S "PEDAGOGY"

The paper seeks to integrate Theodor W. Adorno's observations about upbringing and education, scattered throughout his almost entire opus. The intention, however, is not doctrinal: loyalty to the author would be betrayed and it would fall short of his criticism if such integration would sought to reconstruct some uncollected or unspoken Adorno's "educational doctrine". With a sworn anti-systematist, even visions of educational theory and practice must not grow into a system. It is rather about an attitude that insists on trying to bring the antinomy of education - by non-free means to the goal of freedom, by manipulation to the point of impossibility to be manipulated - into school and not only school tasks, as a goal that will prevent Auschwitz's repetition, enable autonomy and empower for self-reflection.