Abstract

OLIVIER, Alain-Patrick. Identity and difference in a post-dialectical theory: on Theodor W. Adorno’s Paris lectures. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.63, pp.1351-1360.  Epub Mar 09, 2021. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.issn.0102-6801.v31n63a2017-03.

How should we think of identity and difference in a post-dialectical way? Adorno is usually considered as a theoretician of otherness, whereby otherness is taken as the opposite to identity. I present in this paper the position of Adorno and the way he thought the topics of “identity” and “difference” in his 1961 Paris Lectures, those lectures given at the College de France which are sketches of his “Negative Dialectics”. Adorno’s purpose is to criticize the main philosophical conception based on a philosophy of identity - in order to make clear its political implications. In the post-World War II situation, this political reflexion was connected with an educational project regarding the education of citizen in the time of late capitalism in order to avoid a relapse into barbarism.

Keywords : Dialectics; Difference; Ontology; Negative dialectics.

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