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Yes, however liberalism didn't start out to be like what it has become. I mean, it promised quite different things than those it actually delivered. I...

So you are connecting the functional concept to the managerial? I guess so, we can say it is all about efficiency, productivity these days. But let us...

Better, I think, but can you explain this bit?

Aargh, you left me high and dry! But seriously, no worries!

What, unconvinced of your own conclusion? :smile: The only error I see is this thing with the categories.

There is no mention from Adorno here that Kant addressed "the ontological need. Adorno is simply using Kant to reject Heidegger's claims: "An ontology...

Well, I said that (as always, according to Adorno) Heidegger's philosophy of fundamental ontology is pre-critical, and gave the reasons for my believi...

I am not well-read on the matter, but from what I've heard, Heidegger's treatment of Husserl wasn't right. I didn't say that Heidegger is pre-critical...

rope in: persuade someone to take part in an activity despite their reluctance. So Heidegger was reluctant to engage critically, but had to make it se...

I thought so as well, since Adorno says that Heidegger's reading is legit, and also he himself sees a problem in Kant. However Heidegger only read, bu...

i am contemplating it now, so I might be mistaken, but my first impression is that you got it wrong. But first, I will write something that surprised ...

But on a general note, and trying to be as faithful to Adorno as is humanly possible, I think that what he is saying here is that virtually all philos...

Still, and on another note, here, you described roughly how could one make an (affirmative) ontology out of negative dialectics, if they wanted to. In...

I would certainly love to do that, but I can hardly cope with one topic at the moment. I could, I suppose, start the thread, but then I would be under...

Philosophical responsibilities! It's some strange phrase. First time I came across it was some years ago when reading Kant's Prolegomena (to any futur...

This is quite nice, more ... humane than ND, meaning Adorno there speaks like a normal person, unlike the convoluting language employed in his theoret...

I don't see how he is dismissing at the end of the quoted passage, quite the opposite, care to explain? Also, I believe Adorno is dismissing both the ...

Well, Adorno doesn't interpret the situation, but I would think that whenever he brings up mainstream opinion, that he doesn't think very highly of it...

From what I've gathered, the introduction in ND is a reviewed version of an essay Adorno has written to accompany his lectures, which is featured in L...

Yes, he doesn't say anything about right, I was asking you. Your interpretive position is that the impoverishment of experience through dialectics (du...

So when Adorno says: "The impoverishment of experience through dialectics, which infuriates mainstream opinion, proves itself however to be entirely a...

Trump's presidency is a revolutionary movement? Subvert as in undermine? I don't understand why you would bring Trump up, since the thrust and power o...

This, I took from ND's introduction: The realization was missed because the hippie movement failed to transform the world in its image, but was commod...

Yes, I was just about to post the following before I saw your reply. I remembered this movie I watched lots of years ago. I think an example of the "b...

Yes, it is a different one, I think it's very good, but some parts are missing. Oh, and not to forget, I found an outright error in Redmond's translat...

But what truly interests me now is to find out what Adorno really means by this "bitter sacrifice" mentioned above. Anyway, I also wanted to say that ...

According to Adorno, this is what is supposed to happen, when going from particular to universal, or rather, like he says, when "dialectics develops t...

If a joke was what it ever was, then how do you explain the following? Dont you see this as a suggestion, to "fall into the abyss"? Doesn't he say tha...

I believe he's trying to keep the tension, the dialectic, of grounding alive. Descartes grounded certainty in the cogito, as a way to escape dogmatism...

This is how I read it too, like there are two kind of groundlessness, a true and a false one. One that is acknowledged, and one that is not and forgot...

For Hegel, subject and object are ultimately identical, in the Absolute Spirit, and thus this is where his system is grounded, on this identity. Anoth...

Indeed, in "fragility", it is "groundlessness". However, in "vertigo", it is bottomless: Whereas the Thorne translation in "vertigo" is: But curious t...

Yes I know, it is what I was saying, we agree in everything else but this, but this is a very crucial part. Take it as it stands: a true ontology is a...

I think you read it slightly wrong. My take is that Adorno says that identity philosophy despite claiming bottomlessness with its absolute, solid grou...

He doesn't say that bottomlessness relates to untruth, rather the opposite, that the acknowledgment of it is what touches truth. Negative dialectics, ...

Well, holidays got to me, eventually.. :cool: Have fun catching up!

I am sure he was, but the main problem is that all of our concepts have been reified by ideology. And so equivocality is more pertinent than ever. Tak...

Cause Adorno was coerced into giving a standpoint, as you well know he was against standpoints. So I would imagine he would offer one as absurd as it ...

Of course there is. Anyway, hear me out: Jamal was right to remember Kant, since he was the one that started with all these "conditions of possible ex...

I'm starting to believe that the "diner to the roast" is the wrong old school model. And that experience is consumed into theory, not the opposite.

Im confused... How is this different from what I said??

Hold on, I was under the impression that "object" means anything that can be known or cognized, the philosopher's subject-matter, like justice, beauty...

So a dialectic between ideology and language. I guess nowadays we have political correctness and woke culture, but it is not clear which is promoted b...

It is the assumption that objects are identical to their concepts. I think the denial of this, is the only principle of negative dialectics, everythin...

Wouldn't you think that equating thinking with pleasure, is identity-thinking?

I was thinking regarding the "false-color bitmap image of the planetary surface", whether it is one of ideology's ways to make us forget about the ear...

This is one of Adorno's alternate way, one of many, of saying what he said before, namely to go beyond the concept by means of concept. "The thought w...

What, you mean this? This can indeed be so in his other works, but in ND, his only metatheoretical work? Hm, it should be, if we consider that there i...

Ancient greek and german share common structure and grammar, they are both SOV and inflected languages, unlike modern greek which is SVO, but managed ...

The point that I would have liked to make was that in the translated material, we can see its meaning, the semantics of it, but not its aesthetic, its...