Abstract

PUCCI, Bruno. Negative dialectics: tensions between philosophy and metaphysics. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2014, vol.39, n.2, pp.257-270. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v39i2.31706.

The aim of this essay is to examine the concept of metaphysics developed by Theodor Adorno, in "Part III, Models" of his book Negative Dialectics. Firstly, it presents an approach to the category of negative dialectics, based on dialogue with Hegel while, at the same time, in opposition to his idealist dialectics, uses as a reference the assumption that only the concept can overcome the concept and thus approximate the non-conceptual. Then, as in the previous case, the text indicates that Adorno, in constructing a new metaphysics, does not abandon the specific categories which had historically given his work sustainability. However, he inverts them in his direction: negative metaphysics migrates to micrology, to "the scum of the world of phenomena". Key concepts of traditional metaphysics - essence, infinitude and depth - in the context of the primacy of the object over the subject, now return to "the things of men". The text also shows that Adorno, instigated by the observation of Simmel who, from an idealistic perspective, says: how amazing it is that the sufferings of humanity are so little seen in the history of philosophy, turns to an analysis of pain, grievances and genocide, sad realities which characterize the history of humanity in times of capitalist societies.

Keywords : Negative Dialectics; Metaphysics; Theodor Adorno; Friedrich Hegel.

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