How to Get Over “Ambiguity-Intolerant” Approaches to Social Theory?
A Feminist Critique of Adorno’s Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory
eginning from Adorno’s empirical research published as The Authoritarian Personality, I have tried to relate actual empirical studies with the concept of “ambiguity intolerance” viewed as fundamental for a certain kind of knowledge. I have shown how Adorno attempts to escape, on a methodological as well as on a theoretical level, different modes of the rigidity of thought. […]
