Em torno do motivo da despersonalização em T. W. Adorno

This study investigates two themes of Adorno’s work closely interrelated. The first concerns the depersonalization process in its relationship to the notion of individual. The second concerns the concept of mimesis. Here we investigate the constitutive ambivalence of this concept, according to which the mimetic moment of reconciliation with the object is combined with the mimetic moment of dissolution of the identity of the subject - or his depersonalization. The understanding of this ambivalence has the merit of clarifying significantly the image that Adorno makes up of Walter Benjamin’s spiritual physiognomy, presented in the first part of the study.