This paper aims at showing the relationship between "Theory of semi-erudition" by Adorno and his (and Horkheimer's) suggestion found in the Dialectic of enlightenment, that the culture industry removes the individual capacity to "schematize", that is - according to Kant's point of view in the Critique of pure reason - to refer their sensible perception to fundamental concepts. Since in the Dialectic of enlightenment, in the chapter on the culture industry, the authors do not develop this idea, I try to find a development of it in the part entitled "Elements of anti-Semitism", particularly in the section on the "false projection". It is then possible to show that the same conception of "semi-erudition", which, in the Dialectic of enlightenment, links the theory on anti-Semitism to the critique to the culture industry, may be considered as a concept applied to educational issues.
Theodor Adorno; Max Horkheimer; Immanuel Kant; Critical theory of society