Notes on the concept of progress by Theodor Adorno and Norbert Elias

Abstract

This paper discusses the concept of progress in Norbert Elias and Theodor Adorno. The latter, on the idea of progress, has always been upset because I could not see him clear a line toward the liberation of all men: the return derived from resvales humanity always made him uncomfortable. In Elias, progress is presented as the capacity for self-regulation, control of emotions and impulses of men, as well as the process of personality formation depends inexorably development of social processes, therefore, gives a state remarking progress.