Sculptor wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:13 pm
John = Philospher
Bob = Philosopher.
BUT
John is NOT equal to Bob. Therefore Philosopher is not equal to Philosopher.
If you want more words and less clarity, why not read Adorno's Negative Dialectics???
If Horkheimer's thinking described a dialectical pattern, Adorno's thinking was that pattern.
He understood Hegel's "self-movement of the concept" not as a "theory of
development," but as a movement of thought in which "all categories are
themselves and not themselves," in which a concept was "observed so closely
that it was maintained and transformed at the same time."
In 1942 Adorno wrote three short pieces similar in format to Benjamin's
theses on history. But whereas Benjamin juxtaposed opposites in a visual
sense, using theological images (the angel of history, the Messiah, the chessplaying
dwarf) to express historical materialism, its polar opposite, Adorno's
pieces "developed" dynamically from one pole to another.
By virtue of the logic of the philosophic aporia, without waiting for the ideological
supplement of the philosopher, it displaces the empirical hegemony of the existent as such into
that which is intrinsic [Wesenhafte]. The conception of being as an entity, whose thinking
determination invariably misses what is thought by cutting it into pieces and thereby, according
to the current political term, subverts it, hearkens back to the Eleatic unity of conclusiveness just
like the system once did and today the world.