抄録 | Recently published Adorno’s seminar protocols which comprise 4 volumes and over 2,000 pages (2021) provide us plentiful and inspiring sources about Adorno’s thought, which could not be seen in his books, lectures, essays and other published materials, and wider perspective on the history of “Frankfurt school” or the genesis of “Critical Theory (Kritische Theorie)” in the post-war Germany. In this paper, we explore the various interactions between Adorno and seminar participants (mainly students, but including Habermas, Negt, Schmidt, etc). This study explores Adorno’s seminar protocols recorded in the late 1950s, especially “economy and society” seminar in 1957/58 winter semester. It clarifies Adorno’s thought of the relationship between economy and society, through reports and discussions about Marxian economics, neoliberalism and modern economics. Through the examination of this seminar protocol, we found a fresh and unique thought of the economy, that is, “to survive (überleben)”. Simultaneously, this point of view suggests a critique of the economics and the economy itself. It could provide us another view of the economy, and the possibility of another constitution of society. However, to understand Adorno’s thought of the economy (and the society) precisely, a successive investigation of 1958 summer semester seminar protocol is needed. |