...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...

...). Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 antihumanism aesthetics dialectic of enlightenment modernism negative dialectics The whole futile body was suffused by transparency. Little by little the body turned into light. Its blood into a beam. Its limbs froze in an unintelligible...

... 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...

...-1930s Adorno had reassessed his relationship to Benjamin, especially the latter’s “negative theological moment.” The negative utopian theology that had hitherto informed Adorno’s thought moved toward an increasingly secular and historically grounded conceptual metaphysics, with a more dialectical...

... 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...

.... The structural 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...

... concessions of the German Left, his fixation on historical national guilt and the purely negative aspects of the capitalist state prohibited a genuinely dialectical critique revealing opportunities from within the apparent impasse. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024...

... stresses the processual character of the aesthetic by casting 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...

.... See the section “Objectivity and Reification” in Adorno, Negative Dialectics . 8. See Krahl, Konstitution und Klassenkampf , esp. “Zu Lukács, Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein” (168–85) and “Aus einer Diskussion über Lukács” (203–5). Lukács is also one of the main references in Krahl’s...

.... Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. dialectics enlightenment cunning mimesis negativity Writing in the preface to Dialektik der Aufklärung in May 1944, Max...

... 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...

.... Not surprisingly, when Adorno turned to the anti-Hegelian tradition of Existenzphilosophie, from Søren Kierkegaard to Martin Heidegger, he dis- cerned a regression to nominalist premises. In Negative Dialectics he con- tended that “nominalism, one of the roots of the existential philosophy of the 15...

... 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...