Categorías y modelos en la Dialéctica negativa de Th. W. Adorno: crítica al pensamiento idéntico. Categories and Models in the Negative Dialectics of Th. W. Adorno: Critique of the Identity Thinking

• Main Author: Esther Barahona Arriaza
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2006-09-01
• Series: Logos
• Subjects: Razón; Crítica; Dialéctica; Negación; Identidad; Materialismo; Idealismo
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASEM/article/view/16600

The main goal of this article is to present Negative Dialectics as a central theme in the Adorno’s thought. In this work Adorno develops the antinomies that there are in the concept of instrumental reason, in order to assert the necessity for a new notion of rationality: a dialectical, negative and materialistic reason, which holds, at the same time, the non identity between subject-object, thought and reality. In this way Philosophy becomes critique of Idealism because this philosophical system defends the “identity thinking” and the irrational society that supports, making a true freedom impossible. Instead of this conception Adorno defines Metaphysics as “negative dialectics” and antisystem, whose method is the analysis of thinking’s models, as a result of his own critical epistemology.