[FRA:] [Adorno-Hegel] Something about Kant from ND

[Lev Lafayette]

I'm not sure of that specific quote but there is the rather notorious remarks of 2004:

"Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options [than Christianity]. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter." 

(cf., http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=347)

Personally, I think Habermas' uhhh, "epistemological turn" occurred with the publication of The Future of Human Nature in 2003.

Regards,



Lev


--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Ralph Dumain <rdumain at autodidactproject.org> wrote:

> From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain at autodidactproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [FRA:] [Adorno-Hegel] Something about Kant from ND
> To: theory-frankfurt-school at srcf.ucam.org
> Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 1:46 PM
> If Habermas wrote such rubbish, he's gone senile.  I
> guess he had to 
> set limits to reason to make way for faith.  It's bad
> enough that 
> others coopt critical theory for theology, but to see top
> members of 
> the Frankfurt School doing this is to induce vomiting.
> I'm not 
> impressed that there is any theological content in Adorno
> whatever, 
> in spite of references to "redemption". It's
> just a metaphor.
> 
> At 11:06 PM 8/22/2008, matthew piscioneri wrote:
> 
> >and another reading of Adorno on Kant and thinking the
> [A]bsolute 
> >might just have something to do the increasingly
> theological 
> >elements in his and in Horkheimer's work (not
> Marcuse's...or at 
> >least not as discernible).
> >
> >Recently attended a very enjoyable seminar given by
> Howard Caygill 
> >(Goldsmiths College, UK) on Walter Benjamin and
> Benjamin's 
> >"political theology". Itwas clear that
> similar themes are present 
> >also in Adorno and Horkheimer.....and increasingly so
> (amusingly 
> >enough) in Habermas who after all wrote in
> _PostMetaphysical 
> >Thinking_ said it all...the tradition of critical
> philosophy (almost 
> >by necessity!) from Kant onwards is an extension of
> Judaeo-Christian 
> >eschatology,
> >
> 
> 
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