Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:23:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: MT: SCHELLING OR ADORNO?


I recall sometime ago Jukka Laari identified Schelling as a progenitor of
modern materialist thought because of his resistance to the identification
of thought and being.  Do I got that right?   But wasn't there also an
"identity philosophy" in Schelling? Is this something that Hegel opposed?  I
don't get it.

Then there's the Schelling whom Lukacs denigrates in THE DESTRUCTION OF REASON.
Hope does this enter the equation?

Now, Jukka, shouldn't you also be interested in Adorno, who strenuously
resists the identification of thought with being and who stresses the
primacy of the object?  Adorno is a materialist, though one of a every
curious stripe, for he is not a positive materialist, but a negative one: he
strives continually to repel idealism, and the reduction of being to
thought, emphasizing the eternal residue of non-assimilable materiality even
while refusing to engage in the construction of a positive materialist
ontology.  At least this is how I construe Adorno.  Is this somehow relevant
to your interests?

Or am I better off getting a good night's sleep than staying up late doing this?