On Thinking the Tragic with Adorno
| Autor: | Markku Nivalainen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
History media_common.quotation_subject Adorno Adorno Theodor W Metaphysics Human condition 060104 history Reading (process) 050602 political science & public administration 0601 history and archaeology tragedy Dialectic of Enlightenment ta611 media_common Dialectic Literature business.industry Philosophy 05 social sciences Enlightenment ta6132 06 humanities and the arts estetiikka 0506 political science Epistemology PN0441 ta6131 Theodor W aesthetics Tragedy (event) business B1 |
| ISSN: | 1084-8770 |
| Popis: | This article seeks to provide a template for understanding the tragic dimension of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy through a reading of his early collaborative work with Max Horkheimer, the Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). While Adorno’s view has often been considered to be tragic, little has been done to reconstruct the tragic dimension of his thought. I argue that the view of the human condition, presented in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, is founded on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical convictions that have structural similarities with the positions held by theorists and philosophers of tragedy and the tragic. Since traces of these tragic elements can be found throughout Adorno’s mature philosophy, the approach presented in this article may serve as a model for a more detailed mapping and examination of the tragic dimension of his thought in future research. peerReviewed |
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