Mediações Dilaceradas: Linguagem e Experiência no Pensamento de Theodor Adorno

This article focuses on the concept of "mediation" as used by Adorno throughout his philosophical and critical work. Starting with his discussion about culture in contemporary society, the paper examines his reflections on language as a process lacerated between the social aspect of communication and an emphatic (and dialectic) notion of truth. In a dialectical framework that privileges the motif of the "non-identity" of Art, I discuss the relationship between literature – as the model for the "aesthetic dignity of words" – and the possibility of overcoming that laceration in the sense of communicating differentiality