Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 11:44:22 -0600
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: Re: capitalist social structures are false, Ruth




Howard Engelskirchen wrote:
> 
> Hi Mervyn,
> 
> Simon Jarvis at p 213 of Adorno: A Critical Introduction comments that
> Adorno's assertion that the world as it exists is "false to its innermost
> core," cannot be taken literally:  "because if taken with total literalness
> they are not thinkable.  In the very act of thinking such a claim we provide
> ourselves with evidence of the extent to which it is untrue."
> 
> Howard
> 

I suppose "true" and "false" have all sorts of metaphorical uses. To
which I would have no objection. But when I see someone taking thier
metaphorical uses literally my eyes tend to glaze over and I do turn my
attention elsewhere, as I've been doing in browsing through this thread.
:-)

The quoted phrase from Adorno is simply clumsy rhetoric, and because
there is a real disconnect between structures as they appear and the
realities informing them, bad rhetoric in attempting to describe that
disconnect is reprehensible and leads to obscurity and miscomprehension
of the world.

Carrol



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