myth and reason, principles and responsibility

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In a message dated 05/07/97 16:20:24 GMT, Ken write:s

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 I wish Adorno had lived to write that third volume on moral philosophy.
 
Well I'd suggest a closer reading of negative dialectics first, where the
affinities between the first stages of negative dialectical analysis and the
imperatives of Husserlian phenomenology are extremely clear and explicit.
Basically, and amongst other things of course, NDs involves both a
radicalisation and fulfilment of the dialectical tendencies partially
suppressed by Husserl. This needs to be borne in mind before the very
identification of something as phenomenological is, in itself, sufficient to
function as a criticism invoking Adorno as a remedy.

Incidentally, in the face of those who want to appropriate Adorno as a
postmod before the word was invented, it is worth reading his dialectical
critique of the idea of pure difference/non-identity/particularity etc. in
Negative Dialectics.

BTW My own pet venture at the moment - in relation to recent work on law - is
to try to elucidate an internal dialectic between positive dialectic of
reconciliation on the one hand; and an adornesque negative dialectic of
resolute resistance to identity-logic/subsumption of different etc.