The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. 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. 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, O'Connor argues, is committed to the "concretion" of
philosophy: his thesis of nonidentity attempts to show that reality
is not reducible to appearances. This lays the foundation for the
applied "concrete" critique of appearances that is essential to the
possibility of critical theory.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. O'Connor discusses Georg LucAcs and the
influence of his "protocritical theory" on Adorno's thought; the
elements of Kant's and Hegel's German idealism appropriated by
Adorno for his theory of subject-object mediation; the priority of
the object and the agency of the subject in Adorno's epistemology;
and Adorno's important critiques of Kant and the phenomenology of
Heidegger and Husserl, critiques that both illuminate Adorno's key
concepts and reveal his construction of critical theory through an
engagement with the problems of philosophy."
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