--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: ! 'Adorno terminology: ηδονη' wordpress_id: 1737 wordpress_url: https://www.martineve.com/2012/01/09/adorno-terminology-%ce%b7%ce%b4%ce%bf%ce%bd%ce%b7/ date: !binary |- MjAxMi0wMS0wOSAxMDowMDoyOCArMDEwMA== date_gmt: !binary |- MjAxMi0wMS0wOSAxMDowMDoyOCArMDEwMA== categories: - Academia - Philosophy - Theodor Adorno tags: - Adorno - definition - greek comments: [] ---

"In the false world all ηδονη is false" (Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory. Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor. London: Continuum, 2004. p. 15.)

ηδονη = (hedonistic) pleasure

With thanks to Georgios Maragos for the hedonistic intensifier.

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