"Teologie negative" nel "Doktor Faustus" di Thomas Mann: la costellazione Adorno-Kierkegaard-Benjamin

This article discusses the "theological" aspect of Th. W. Adorno's collaboration in Thomas Mann's "Doktor Faustus". In the beginning the author reviews the main stages of the different literary criticism from the past, moving towards a more comprehensive view of the actual research. The second part presents the criticism of Adorno regarding the last part of Chapter 46 in its original version, where the narrator describes the Finale of Adrian Leverkühn's last composition. Here the author connects the theological contribution of Adorno to his dual role as a "mediator" between Thomas Mann and the theological ideas present in the writings of W. Benjamin and as "interpreter" of Kierkegaard's philosophy. The author in this way defines a "constellation" of "negative theologies" which Thomas Mann inserted in the novel.