...Bo Earle In Negative Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno attempts to work through the death of aura. Drawing on G. W. F. Hegel's account of the “beautiful soul” from the Phenomenology of Spirit and Robert Pippin's account of “modern melancholia” in Friedrich Nietzsche, I interpret these attempts in terms...

... in Adorno's letters reveal subterranean links to the equally utopic experience of romantic love. The landscape near Amorbach appears again in Negative Dialectics , where its visualization is invoked as the nearest analogue to metaphysical experience. Translated into language, these lived experiences serve...

... of the problematic project of identifying thinking. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 Theodor W. Adorno Frankfurt School Negative Dialectics References Adorno Theodor . 1970 . Negative Dialektik . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . ———. 1973 . Negative Dialectics , translated...

... understanding of “spiritual experience [ geistige Erfahrung ]” as a more than merely theoretical matrix for what Adorno, in Negative Dialectics and the lecture courses, calls his materials studies. Rather than indicating largely esoteric or theosophical elements in Kandinsky’s influence on modernist aesthetic...

..., it furthermore has a temporal character enabling Adorno’s theory of the artwork to integrate the two notions of historicity that cancel each other out in his negative-dialectical anthropology: that of the passage of time, and historical possibility. It is the Bilderverbot , as Koch’s analysis shows...

... less developed theory of philosophical interpretation that Adorno employs in the book. His attempt to appropriate and transform both Hegelian and Benjaminian sources in the development of a negative dialectics is a recurring theme from the beginning of his work in the early 1930s. A dialectic...

... of this shift, no doubt encouraged by the rise of fascism and the horrors of World War II, many of Adorno’s arguments that Horkheimer had previously viewed with suspicion now held a greater appeal. 31 47. Adorno, Negative Dialectics , xx . 48. Fromm, You Shall Be as Gods , 58–60 . 49...

... York: Basic, 2001), xviii, xvi, 49. 4. Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, trans. E. F. N. Jeph- cott (New York: Verso, 2005), 19 (epigraph), 230, 49. Some of the renderings of Minima Moralia and Negative Dialectics have been modified based on Dennis Redmond’s...

... model by which Adorno seeks to reveal the always already suppressed ele- ment is most starkly laid out in his Negative Dialectics, in which he seeks to come to terms with the antagonisms of history and philosophy. For this reason, as the title suggests, he examines the antago­ nism...

... aesthetic negativity as a perpetual provocation to all normative discourses of reason and transparent understanding.13 Yet if it is true, as Horkheimer and Adorno argue in Dialectic of Enlight­ enment, that the advent of the modern form of rationality has banished from the admissible realm...

... to a legitimization of the socialist dictatorship in the Ostbereich (the East), designed to advocate for an aesthetic “reconciliation under duress” in a political situation that could hardly be reconciled at all. 6 In Negative Dialectics Adorno also attacks Lukács’s category of reification as a remnant...

... David Kaufmann At the end of Negative Dialectics, Theodor W. Adorno famously claims that responsible thought must maintain its solidarity with metaphysics even (and especially) at the moment of its collapse. Just a few pages earlier, he has argued that metaphysics guards the truth content...

... either system or ontology.”16 The conclusion of the essay consists of a montage of quotations into which I insert an explicatory section. I Perhaps it makes sense, in writing about an author whose major theoretical work bears the title Negative Dialectics, to begin with a negation. Jacob Burck...

... and status of objects. Huhn remarks that “Adorno’s neg- ative dialectic instead favors the object at the expense of the subject” (TH, 239), and it is clear that, for Huhn, in contrast with this Adornian emphasis and concomitant relegation, Kant’s account of beauty is ultimately reducible...

...-Morss Susan . 1977 . The Origin of Negative Dialectics . New York : Free . Cantril Hadley Allport Gordon W. . 1935 . The Psychology of Radio . New York : Harper . Claussen Detlev . 2010 . Adorno: One Last Genius . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press...

... German Critique, Inc. 2016 nominalism Theodor W. Adorno domination of nature musique informelle proper names References Adorno Theodor W. 1973 . Negative Dialectics , translated by Ashton E. B. . New York : Routledge . ———. 1973 . Philosophische Terminologie: Zur...

... from practical politics. The major difference between the two schools lies in their intellectual origin. The Frankfurt School relies mainly on a version of Hegelian dialectic that both Herbert Marcuse and Adorno specified as “negative.” Derrida’sphi - losophy develops within the tradition...

...-1930s with Walter Benjamin on the “decay of the aura” to Negative Dialectics (1966), when he characterized aesthetics as “the salvation of appearance [ die Rettung des Scheins ]” and assigned it an “incomparable metaphysical relevance.” 3 In Aesthetic Theory Adorno continued to refine...

... Press, 1998), 8. For the specifically modern dimensions of Adorno and Wittgenstein see Rolf Wiggershaus, Wittgenstein und Adorno: Zwei Spielarten modernen Philosophierens (Göttingstein: Wallstein, 2000). 14. Cf. Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Seabury...

... Damaged Life , translated by Jephcott Edmund . London : Verso , 2005 . Adorno Theodor W. Negative Dialectics , translated by Ashton E. B. . New York : Seabury , 1973 . Clausewitz Carl von . On War , edited and translated by Howard Michael and Paret Peter...