[FRA:] Adorno on Husserl & idealism: reference

Ralph Dumain rdumain at autodidactproject.org
Tue Nov 13 07:30:24 GMT 2007


Thanks to both of you.  This is tremendously helpful.  Hot topic or 
not, I think it's tremendously important.

At 01:54 AM 11/13/2007, Alon Lischinsky wrote:
>On 13/11/2007, Ralph Dumain <rdumain at autodidactproject.org> wrote:
>
> > Adorno, Theodor W. "Husserl and the Problem of Idealism," in G.S.
> > 20.1 (1986), pp. 119-34.
> >
> > The "GS" refers to the German edition of Adorno's collected
> > worlks.  One would think and English-language essay would have also
> > been published in the English-speaking world.  I don't recall coming
> > across this reference before.  What am I missing?
>
>I'd guess that few people bother to quote it because Adorno's
>relationship to Husserl isn't really a hot philosophical topic
>nowadays, and because most of the topics the article deals with were
>developed at greater length in Zur Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie
>anyway.
>
>A decent review of the article contents can be found in Wolff, Ernst
>(2006) "From phenomenology to critical theory: the genesis of Adorno's
>critical theory from his reading of Husserl". Philosophy & Social
>Criticism, 32(5): 555-572, available at the author's site at
>https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/bitstream/2263/3306/1/Wolff_From%282006%29.pdf
>
>The original, as Claus said, is reprinted in JSTOR. Browsing through
>it gives an idea of how hard Adorno's years at Merton College must
>have been. In that unspeakably pedantic clique, Adorno's decidedly
>Germanic prose and idiosyncratically convoluted argumentation must
>have provoked no little stupor.
>
>Alon




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