Abstract

This contribution is devoted to the question of the extent to which selected texts by Theodor W. Adorno actually realize the concept of a constellative use of terms propagated by him by comparing the links between concepts in Adorno’s texts with those in selected texts by Rudolf Carnap. In order to carry out this comparison, a model of conceptuality is developed which allows to operationalize term references and their relationship to one another on the basis of linguistic criteria and transfers these relations into networks which are finally compared with one another by means of network analysis. The network analytical comparisons show that both authors do not fully correspond to their ideal of concept-linkage, but that Adorno implements his own much more consistently than Carnap.