Against Epistemology - A Metacritique - A Metacritique

Informationen zum Autor Theodor W. Adorno was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist, and a leading member of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Klappentext This classic book by Theodor W. Adorno anticipates many of the themes that have since become common in contemporary philosophy: the critique of foundationalism, the illusions of idealism and the end of epistemology. It also foreshadows many of the key ideas that were developed by Adorno in his most important philosophical works, including Negative Dialectics.Against Epistemology is based on a manuscript Adorno originally wrote in Oxford in 1934-37 during his first years in exile and subsequently reworked in Frankfurt in 1955-56. The text was written as a critique of Husserl's phenomenology, but the critique of phenomenology is used as the occasion for a much broader critique of epistemology. Adorno described this as a 'metacritique' which blends together the analysis of Husserl's phenomenology as the most advanced instance of the decay of bourgeois idealism with an immanent critique of the tensions and contradictions internal to Husserl's thought. The result is a powerful text which remains one of the most devastating critiques of Husserl's work ever written and which heralded many of the ideas that have become commonplace in contemporary philosophy. Zusammenfassung This classic book by Theodor W. Adorno anticipates many of the themes that have since become common in contemporary philosophy: the critique of foundationalism, the illusions of idealism and the end of epistemology. It also foreshadows many of the key ideas that were developed by Adorno in his most important philosophical works, including Negative Dialectics.Against Epistemology is based on a manuscript Adorno originally wrote in Oxford in 1934-37 during his first years in exile and subsequently reworked in Frankfurt in 1955-56. The text was written as a critique of Husserl's phenomenology, but the critique of phenomenology is used as the occasion for a much broader critique of epistemology. Adorno described this as a 'metacritique' which blends together the analysis of Husserl's phenomenology as the most advanced instance of the decay of bourgeois idealism with an immanent critique of the tensions and contradictions internal to Husserl's thought. The result is a powerful text which remains one of the most devastating critiques of Husserl's work ever written and which heralded many of the ideas that have become commonplace in contemporary philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 Introduction 3 Procedure and Object Immanent Critique Mediating the First Mathematicizaton Concept of Method Promoting the Subject Persistence as Truth The Elementary The Regressive Philosophy of Origins and Epistemology System and Debit Opposing Forces in Epistemology The Drive for System Doctrine of Antinomies Nominalism Motivation and Tendency of Ontology Illusory Concretization and Formalism New and Old 1 Critique of Logical Absolutism 41 Philosophy, Metaphysics and Science Contradiction in Scientificization Concept of Intuition Husserl's Scientism Dialectic in Spite of Itself A Head-Start for Science 'Realism' in Logic The Logical In-Itself Presupposition of Logical Absolutism Essence and Development (Entfaltung) Calculators, Logic and Mechanics Reification of Logic The Logical 'Object' Autosemantic and Synsemantic Expressions Logical Laws and Laws of Thought Aporia of Logical Absolutism Relating Genesis and Validity Genesis and Psychology Thinking and Psychologism The Law of Non-Contradiction The Law of Identity Contingency Abandoning the Empirical Phenomenological and Eidetic Motifs 2 Species and Intention 89 Propos...

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Preface 1
 
Introduction 3
 
Procedure and Object Immanent Critique
 
Mediating the First Mathematicizaton
 
Concept of Method Promoting the Subject
 
Persistence as Truth The Elementary
 
The Regressive
 
Philosophy of Origins and Epistemology
 
System and Debit Opposing Forces in Epistemology
 
The Drive for System Doctrine of Antinomies
 
Nominalism Motivation and Tendency of Ontology
 
Illusory Concretization and Formalism
 
New and Old
 
1 Critique of Logical Absolutism 41
 
Philosophy, Metaphysics and Science
 
Contradiction in Scientificization
 
Concept of Intuition Husserl's Scientism
 
Dialectic in Spite of Itself A Head-Start for Science
 
'Realism' in Logic The Logical In-Itself
 
Presupposition of Logical Absolutism
 
Essence and Development (Entfaltung)
 
Calculators, Logic and Mechanics
 
Reification of Logic The Logical 'Object'
 
Autosemantic and Synsemantic Expressions
 
Logical Laws and Laws of Thought
 
Aporia of Logical Absolutism
 
Relating Genesis and Validity Genesis and Psychology
 
Thinking and Psychologism
 
The Law of Non-Contradiction The Law of Identity
 
Contingency Abandoning the Empirical
 
Phenomenological and Eidetic Motifs
 
2 Species and Intention 89
 
Propositions in Themselves and Essences
 
Lived Experience (Erlebnis) and 'Sense'
 
Critique of Singular 'Senses'
 
Origin of Essential Insight (Wesensschau)
 
'Ideational Abstraction' Abstraction and ()
 
The Primacy of Meaning Analysis (Bedeutungsanalyse)
 
The Function of the Noema Noema and ()
 
Relation Between the Two Reductions Noema as Hybrid
 
Essence and 'Factual States of Consciousness'
 
Antinomy of Subjectivism and Eidetics
 
'Eidetic Variations' Essence as Fiction
 
3 Epistemological Concepts in Dialectic 124
 
Phenomenology as Epistemology
 
Positivism and Platonism Husserl's Concept of
 
Givenness 'Foundation' (Fundierung)
 
Ontologization of the Factical
 
Thing as Model of the Given
 
Givenness Mediated in Itself The Subject of Givenness
 
Paradoxia of Pure Intuition
 
Matter as Fulfilment Sensation and Perception
 
Antinomy of the Doctrine of Perception
 
Sensation and Materialism
 
Epistemology as Elementary Analysis 'Gestalt'
 
Intentionality and Constitution Enter Noesis and Noema
 
The Forgotten Synthesis Critique of Correlation Theory
 
Pure Identity and Noematic Core
 
The Primacy of Objectifying Acts
 
Thing as Clue (Leitfaden) Antinomy of the Noema
 
Critique Dismissed
 
Antagonism to System
 
Husserl's Transition to Transcendental Idealism
 
Fragility of the System
 
4 Essence and Pure Ego 186
 
Husserl and his Successors Phenomenology
 
Attempts to Break Out Self-Revocation
 
Character of Immanence and the Fetishism of the Concept
 
'Attitude' (Einstellung) Fantasy and Body
 
Categorial Intuition The Paradoxical Apex
 
The Provenance of Logical Absolutism
 
Fulfilment of Unsensed Moments
 
'Becoming Aware' (Gewahrwerdung)
 
Motivation of Objectivism
 
Withering Away of Argument
 
Phenomenology as Philosophy of Reflection
 
The System in Ruins
 
Advanced and Restorative Elements
 
Natural History Museum Abstract Ideal of Security
 
Infinitization of the Temporal

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"Philosopher, social theorist, musicologist and critic, Adorno is now accepted as one of our century's most brilliant radical thinkers."--Michael Rosen, University of Oxford
"Against all odds, Adorno has emerged at the dawn of the twenty?first century as arguably the leading theoretical inspiration of our time."--Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley

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• Authors: T Adorno, Theodor W Adorno, Theodor W. Adorno, Theodor W. (Frankfurt School) Adorno
• Assisted by: Willis Domingo (Translation), Domingo Willis (Translation)
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2013
• EAN: 9780745665382
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-6538-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophie, Philosophy, Epistemology