Hegel: Three StudiesThis short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that he was merely an apologist for bourgeois society. The second study examines the experiential content of Hegel's idealism, considering the notion of experience in relation to immediacy, empirical reality, science, and society. The third study, "Skoteinos," is an unusual and fascinating essay in which Adorno lays out his thoughts on understanding Hegel. In his reflections, which spring from his experience teaching at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, questions of textual and philosophical interpretation are intertwined. Rescuing the truth value of Hegel's work is a recurring theme of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, and nowhere is this goal pursued with more insight than in these three studies. The core problem Adorno sets for himself is how to read Hegel in a way that comprehends both the work and its historical context, thereby allowing conclusions to be drawn that may seem on the surface to be exactly opposed to what Hegel wrote but that are, nevertheless, valid as the present truth of the work. It is the elaboration of this method of interpretation, a negative dialectic, that was Adorno's underlying goal. Adorno's efforts to salvage the contemporaneity of Hegel's thought form part of his response to the increasingly tight net of social control in the aftermath of World War II. In this, his work is related to the very different attempts to undermine reified thinking undertaken by the various French theorists. The continued development of what Adorno called "the administered world" has only increased the relevance of his efforts. |
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Contents
The Experiential Content of Hegels Philosophy | 53 |
Skoteinos or How to Read Hegel | 89 |
Notes | 149 |
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A. V. Miller abstract Adorno Aspects of Hegel's Axel Honneth becomes bourgeois cept clarity Claus Offe concept concrete consciousness Content of Hegel's contradiction critical critical theorists critique Descartes dialectic distinction empirical epistemology existence experience Experiential Content expression fact Fichte Frankfurt School grasped Hegel's Philosophy Hegelian Hence History of Philosophy human Husserl Ibid idea idealism idealist identity immanent immediacy individual inherent intellectual intended judgment Jürgen Habermas Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge labor language linguistic Logic Logic/Encyclopedia matter at hand Max Horkheimer means mediated merely metaphysics moments movement nature negation negative ness nonidentical notion ontology particular Phenomenology of Spirit philoso Philosophy of Right posited precisely principle pure rational Read Hegel reality reason reflection relationship says self-reflection sense Skoteinos social society speculative subject and object sublation texts Theodor W theory thereby thing thinking thought Three Studies tion totality trans truth content understanding unity unmediated untruth whole words
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Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics Shierry Weber Nicholsen No preview available - 1999 |