...Migrants in the Profane explores the concept of secularization in the thought of three key figures in the classical phase of critical theory, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor W. Adorno. Following Adorno’s dictum that theological concepts must undergo a “migration...

...Examines the concept of secularization in the writings of Theodor W. Adorno, with special emphasis on the development of negative dialectics as an attempt to realize the principle that theological concepts can survive only if they undergo a “migration into the profane.” Adorno Theodor W biography...