There is no right life in the wrong one
“There is no right life in the wrong one.” This sentence is a sentence by the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno from his Minima Moralia . The winged word is now considered his most famous phrase, a phrase that has become proverbial.
The Minima Moralia were created between 1944 and 1947 in American exile under the influence of fascist terror in Europe. Within the work, the sentence forms the final sentence of a two-page long aphorism entitled Asylum for Homeless People (No. 18), which deals with the difficulties of setting up a home somewhere in modern times. With his sentence, Adorno affirmed the difference between right and wrong and the importance of not being deprived of the sense of what is right.
In the first, original version of the text, the sentence was: "It is no longer possible to live properly privately."
Individual evidence
- ^ So Tobias Lehmkuhl : Privately in the right place. As Adorno's most famous sentence originally read , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 26, 2010, p. 14. The article deals with the text by Mittelmeier in Recherche , 4/2009 ( online ).
- ↑ a b c d Clause and sentence after Martin Seel: Das Richtige im Falschen , in: DIE ZEIT , 2001, online , accessed on March 7, 2015.
- ^ Theodor W. Adorno: Minima Moralia (Gesammelte Schriften 4, Frankfurt / M. 1997, page 43)
- ↑ Read out MP3, 7 minutes
- ↑ See Martin Mittelmeier: There is no right stretching out in the wrong bathtub. First published in: Recherche 4/2009, p. 3, online