Adorno's Nonidentical and Derrida's Différance

For a Resurrection of Negative Dialectics

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736963047
• Print ISBN:
  9783736973046
• Edition: 1

The virulent anti-Hegelianism of French poststructuralism and its (difficult) confrontation with Jürgen Habermas has long obscured the closeness of Jacques Derrida's "différance" to Theodor W. Adorno's "Nonidentical." Taking the overarching theme of "identity and difference" as a guide, we can peel apart what unites and separates these two thinkers. In so doing, certain "de-realizing" effects of Derrida's entrapment in signs reveal themselves. By contrast, Adorno's social and cultural diagnosis, when extrapolated to a post-Fordian context is astonishingly fruitful. Attempts to trivialize negative dialectics as a model of intellectual self-understanding from a past age or as an esthetic reserve of ways of life are untenable.

Table of contents

• Preface
• I) Relationship to Husserl
• 1) Adorno and Husserl
• “Logical Absolutism, Skeptical Relativism"
• The Antinomies of the Intuition of Essences and the Noema
• 2) Derrida and Husserl
• Indication and Expression
• Irreducible Non-Presence
• Temporalization and Spatialization
• II) Identity and Difference
• 1) Identity and Difference in Adorno
• Phylogenesis as Negative Totality
• The Law of Exchange and Second Nature
• Art as Aconceptual Cognition
• Which Dialectics?
• Constructing Constellations and Exploding the Identity Compulsion
• Phonocentrism and Grammatology
• Différance and Ontological Difference
• Deconstruction as the Multiplication of Languages and Texts
• 3) A Comparison
• Convergences
• Deconstruction as Radicalized Negative Dialectics?
• III) Ethics and Politics
• 1) Metaethics and Metapolitics in Derrida
• Deconstruction as Conservation: The Heidegger Case
• Justice as Law’s Other
• 2) Aspects of the Identity Compulsion in the Post-Fordist Present, or a Backward Look Ahead with Adorno
• A Hegemonic Single Doctrine
• Bibliography