Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:45:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-gladstone.uoregon.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Re: Lukacs + Adorno


On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Michael Hoover wrote:
> so Adorno tried to sustain rational critical theory via a negative
> dialectics that would both uncover social contradictions and offer
> reconciliation with nature?...and the intended result - freedom from 
> domination and reclamation of the progressive elements of science?...

Yup. Substitute "transnational" for "negative" and you have Adorno's
essential framework. Reconciliation would not just be with Nature, it
would also be reconciliation with other human beings: the end of
capitalist prehistory would, in a strange kind of way, also be the end of
natural history's dominion over human beings, of the relentless struggle
of all against all, of what Sartre called the violence of serialized
scarcity (it being understood that prehistory is the subjective and
natural history the objective tendency of capital). 

-- Dennis



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