[FRA:] Adorno's constellation

[simon smith]

In message 
<411af8540604050556i6fc8ca0bmc172870386d6fa2f at mail.gmail.com>, James 
Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com> writes
>I think A's critique of K as you have presented it here is off the 
>mark, but at the same time represents a common reading of Kierkegaard 
>during the early years of his dissemination across Europe and the US -- 
>a reading that still persists for many people.  K didn't retreat into 
>inwardness. K located the universal in inwardness and claimed that by 
>it we rejoin the entire human race. Furthermore, he argues in Either/Or 
>II that the leap into the ethical stage makes us aware of a 
>historically and socially conditioned self that, with this new 
>awareness, we begin to take responsibility for.  Those who truly do 
>retreat into inwardness K describes as "the demonic" in his _Concept of 
>Anxiety_.

I've read in several places e.g. here http://tinyurl.com/qsvl2  that the 
translations Adorno was using were very problematic. Indeed the review 
is a pretty negative critique as a whole. Ironically, considering the 
area recently discussed, part of that critique centres on the social and 
philosophical conditions at the time Adorno was writing (1929-33), and 
indicates that the book was more or less a polemic against the dominant 
thought of his day.

I know I've read similar remarks on the translation problems involved, 
but god knows where. Haven't read the book myself.

-- 
Simon Smith




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