Wisdom And Philosophy

The Nonidentical in Adorno’s Philosophy

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Ali Shaki 1
Ahmad Ali Heydari 2

1 Master of Philosophy, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor of Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran;

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2024.79717.2245
Abstract
With the critique of the philosophy of identity, Theodor Adorno wishes to shift the concentration of thought to the non-identical. In Adorno's beliefs, from Parmenidus up to Hegel, philosophers sought to overcome contradictions, or to adapt and unify thought and existence. But, Adorno, by emphasising the principle of contradiction, tries to resist againts the idea of the identification of thought and the object. The claim to capture the totality of the real by means of concepts is but an illusion because of the fact that objects are non-conceptual and that the totalizing characteristic of concepts cannot fully perceive the particuliarity of the objects. Reification which has been the dominant ruler of the world since the emergence of late capitalism, has made thoughts resemble the rules and relations of commodity, finally resulting in the identification of the experience. Adorno attempts to recover the objects in their non-identity and free the objects from the dominance of the subject via rebuilding the relations of subject-object in the idea of mediation and save the reificated subjectivity. Based on this view, a constellation of concepts which has a kind of historical quality gathers around an object and, as these concepts seek to explain and comprehend fully the object; Nenetheless, those concepts would never reach the end in doing so.

Keywords

" Constellation
Contradiction
Identity
Mediation
Nonidentity "
Subjects
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Wisdom And Philosophy
Volume 20, Issue 79
Summer 2024
Pages 199-223

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