By Theodor W. Adorno
This brief masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy presents either a significant reinterpretation of Hegel and perception into the evolution of Adorno's severe concept. the 1st learn makes a speciality of the connection of cause, the person, and society in Hegel, protecting him opposed to the feedback that he used to be purely an apologist for bourgeois society. the second one examine examines the experiential content material of Hegel's idealism, contemplating the thought of expertise with regards to immediacy, empirical fact, technological know-how, and society. The 3rd examine, "Skoteinos," is an strange and engaging essay within which Adorno lays out his innovations on knowing Hegel. In his reflections, which spring from his event instructing on the Goethe collage in Frankfurt, questions of textual and philosophical interpretation are intertwined.Rescuing the reality worth of Hegel's paintings is a habitual topic of the serious idea of the Frankfurt institution, and nowhere is that this target pursued with extra perception than in those 3 reports. The middle challenge Adorno units for himself is how to learn Hegel in a manner that comprehends either the paintings and its historic context, thereby permitting conclusions to be drawn that can look at the floor to be precisely against what Hegel wrote yet which are, however, legitimate because the current fact of the paintings. it's the elaboration of this technique of interpretation, a unfavorable dialectic, that used to be Adorno's underlying goal.Adorno's efforts to salvage the contemporaneity of Hegel's concept shape a part of his reaction to the more and more tight internet of social regulate within the aftermath of global conflict II. during this, his paintings is with regards to the very diverse makes an attempt to undermine reified considering undertaken via a number of the French theorists. the ongoing improvement of what Adorno referred to as "the administered global" has basically elevated the relevance of his efforts.
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The philosopher's labor actually aims solely at helping to express what is active in the material itself, what, as social labor, has an objective form that confronts human beings and yet remains the labor of human beings. "The movement in which the unessential consciousness strives to attain this one ness," Hegels says in a later passage in the Phenomenology, "is itself threefold in accordance WIth · the thre�holci -�el;i:ion · tliis coi:isClousness will have with its incarnate beyond: fii-st, as pure con�ciousness; second, as a particular individual .
_", .... " lO Aspects of Hegel's Philosophy reason's critical consciousness of itself and the critical experience of objects . The scientific concept of verification makes its home in that realm of separate, rigid concepts, such as those of theory and experience, on which Hegel declared war. t tend to dismiss as a conceptual straitjacket, that the most recent phase of history has verified. And it has done so to an extent that passes judgment on any 'attempt to orient oneself in terms of what simply is the case and to do without the alleged arbitrar iness of the dialectical construction: in terms of his own ideol ogy, and as the henchman of more powerful interests, Hitler attempted to eradicate bolshevism, whereas it was his war that brought the giant shadow of the Slavic world down on Europe that same Slavic world of which Hegel had already made the ominous statement that it had not yet entered history.
It already presupposes-as the Kantian constitutum, that which is constituted-what transc;en dental philosophy is to explain. :rhe "I think," in contrast, pure identity, is taken to be pure in the emphatic Kantian sense, in dependent of all spatiotemporal facticity � Only in this way can everything that exists dissolve without remainder in its concept. In Kant' this step had not yet been taken. Just as on the one' hand the categorial forms of the "I think" need a supplementary con tent that does not arise out of them themselves in order to make truth, that is, knowledge of nature, possible, so on the other hand the "I think" itself and the categorial forms are respected by Kant as a species of givens; to this extent at least the Critique of PUTe Reason is more a phenomenology of subjectivity than a /Speculative system.