University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 1-1-1995 Theodor Adorno's "political deficit". Michael D. Parkhurst University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1 Recommended Citation Parkhurst, Michael D., "Theodor Adorno's "political deficit"." (1995). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 1950. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/1950 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THEODOR ADORNO'S 'POLITICAL DEFICIT' A Dissertation Presented by MICHAEL D. PARKHURST Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 1995 Department of Political Science © Copyright by Michael D. Parkhurst 1995 All Rights Reserved ' THEODOR ADORNO'S 'POLITICAL DEFICIT A Dissertation Presented by MICHAEL D. PARKHURST Approved as to style and content by: Eric Einhorn, Department Head Department of Political Science ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My most heartfelt thanks go to the people who sustained me spiritually and intellectually over the last seven years, especially Marjorie Abel, Mark Reynolds, Bruce Saxon, Martin Courchaine, and Renee Heberle. I'd like to thank my parents for the support and generosity they've always shown me. I would like to thank my committee, and the teachers who exemplified for me the practice of theory. Finally, in a most non-Adornian gesture, I would like to dedicate this to two institutions, with whom I had the pleasure and genuine privilege of working: the GEO and UWW.