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On Thinking the Tragic with Adorno
Markku Nivalainensubject
Cultural StudiesHistorymedia_common.quotation_subjectAdornoAdorno Theodor W.MetaphysicsHuman condition060104 historyReading (process)050602 political science & public administration0601 history and archaeologytragedyDialectic of Enlightenmentta611media_commonDialecticLiteraturebusiness.industryPhilosophy05 social sciencesEnlightenmentta613206 humanities and the artsestetiikka0506 political scienceEpistemologyPhilosophyPN0441ta6131Theodor W.aestheticsTragedy (event)businessB1description
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
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2016-07-06 |