Abstract

DIAS, João Paulo Andrade. Anchor in Names, Persistence in Ideas. Adorno plays Hölderlin. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2023, vol.37, n.81, pp.1585-1616.  Epub Jan 24, 2024. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v37n81a2023-70301.

This paper deals with Theodor W. Adorno’s interpretation of Hölderlin’s late poetry. It aims to demonstrate each step of the aesthetic analysis of his well-known speech delivered in 1963 to the Hölderlin-Gesellschaft, and punctuates the presence of parataxis’ idea through the essay. Thus, the paper divides Adorno’s procedure into three main concepts: thing content, immanent law of configuration and truth content. First, Adorno asks philology and sociology of art for help to insist on Hölderlin’s closeness to German Idealism, a strategy employed to rebut Heidegger’s version, then current in Germany. Next, Adorno analyses the poetic configuration as to demonstrate how Hölderlin took part in philosophical debates of his time, marking his position out and moving away from Hegel’s theory of knowledge and philosophy of history. Finally, the truth content rescued from the aesthetic analysis suggests concepts already mobilized by Adorno in his youthful philosophy, such as natural history, but also prepares some notions that will appear only in Negative Dialectics, a work known as a reply to the critique of reason formulated by the author himself in Dialectics of Enlightenment. The central thesis of this paper consists in the transversality of parataxis’ idea.

Keywords : Theodor W. Adorno; Friedrich Hölderlin; Thing content; Truth content; Parataxis.

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