Educación, cultura y Estado-nación en Hannah Arendt y Theodor Adorno. Dos lecturas de los orígenes del totalitarismo

This paper aims to focus on the main common points of the lecture of the totalitarian phenomenon supported by Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt, despite the divergence of their analysis. The balance of this contrast conveys that both thinkers display an aesthetics of resistance facing the totalitarian ideology, which is based principally on two tenets. The first is the claim of the concept of culture, which Arendt thinks belongs to the making of a traditio and Adorno sees as a reflexion linked to the critical potential of the fragment and the ruin. The second refers to the educational task, which Arendt considers as an unavoidable pre-political condition and Adorno defines as a fundamental piece of the only possible Bildung after the totalitarian catastrophe, that is, the formation of a non-reificated consciousness.