To explicate the context in which Adorno's philosophy operates-the tradition of modern German philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger-O'Connor examines in detail the ideas of these philosophers as well as Adorno's self-defining differences with them. This lays the foundation for the applied "concrete" critique of appearances that is essential to the possibility of critical theory. Adorno, O'Connor argues, is committed to the "concretion" of philosophy: his thesis of nonidentity attempts to show that reality is not reducible to appearances. But, as Brian O'Connor demonstrates in this highly original interpretation of Adorno's philosophy, the negative dialectic can be seen as the theoretical foundation of the reflexivity or critical rationality required by critical theory. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory Adorno's philosophy considers perhaps the most traditional subject of "pure" philosophy, the structure of experience, whereas critical theory examines specific aspects of society. Tauris, 2013.The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic. Dennis Redmond's updated translation of Negative Dialectics, with commentary.with Fernando Matamoros & Sergio Tischler Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism (2008) ISBN 978-0-7453-2836-2, ed. Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South: Kaleidoscopic Dialectic (1 ed.). ^ "John Zerzan: Anti-civilization theorist, writer and speaker".History and Spirit: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation. : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Adorno's account of dialectics has influenced Joel Kovel, the sociologist John Holloway, the anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan, the sociologist Boike Rehbein, and the Austrian musicologist Sebastian Wedler. Stringently to transcend the official separation of pure philosophy and the substantive or formally scientific realm was one of his determining motives." Influence Īdorno's work has had a large impact on cultural criticism, particularly through Adorno's analysis of popular culture and the culture industry. To use the strength of the subject to break through the fallacy of constitutive subjectivity-this is what the author felt to be his task. To summarize, ".this Negative Dialectics in which all esthetic topics are shunned might be called an “anti-system.” It attempts by means of logical consistency to substitute for the unity principle, and for the paramountcy of the superordinate concept, the idea of what would be outside the sway of such unity. His reflection moves a step higher by applying the concept of dialectics not only to exterior objects of knowledge, but to the process of thought itself. Īdorno raises the possibility that philosophy and its essential link to reality may be essentially epistemological in nature. Such revelation of the limits of knowledge reaches out to its experienced object, whose entirety always escapes the simplifying categories of purely theoretical thinking. This book seeks to free dialectics from such affirmative traits without reducing its determinacy." Īdorno's purpose was to overcome the formal logical limits of the previous definitions of dialectics by putting into light that new knowledge arises less fromĪ Hegelian unification of opposite categories as defined following Aristotelian logic than by the revelation of the limits of knowledge. As early as Plato, dialectics meant to achieve something positive by means of negation the thought figure of the 'negation of the negation' later became the succinct term. Adorno wrote that " Negative Dialectics is a phrase that flouts tradition. Adorno's dialectics rejected this positive element wherein the result was something greater than the parts that preceded and argued for a dialectics which produced something essentially negative. For Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the dialectic was a process of realization that things contain their own negation and through this realization the parts are sublated into something greater. Adorno.Īdorno sought to update the philosophical process known as the dialectic, freeing it from traits previously attributed to it that he believed to be fictive. Negative Dialectics ( German: Negative Dialektik) is a 1966 book by the philosopher Theodor W.
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