Experience of non-identity as resistance

• Grant number: 14/10074-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2014
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Severino Nobre
• Grantee: Adriano Márcio Januário
• Supervisor: Rahel Jaeggi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Humboldt University, Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/16491-3 - Experience of non-identity as resistance: Th. W. Adorno and the 1960s' diagnosis of present time, BP.DR

Abstract

The objective of this international research internship is to seek, discuss, and improve the contents of the doctoral thesis in development, namely, the research about the notion of non-identity's experience on Th. W Adorno's thought. This notion of "broad experience" allows to experience the non-identity as source of resistance to the principle of identity that is present on industrial late capitalism. Following the schedule of doctoral project, the research will seek to reconstruct the concept of experience in the texts of Th. W. Adorno, which were written during the 1960's. Therefore, we will have as object of research the study of follow Adorno's texts: "Three studies to Hegel" (1963), "Interventions" (1963), "The Jargon of Authenticity" (1964), "Negative Dialectic" (1966) and "The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology" (1969). This reconstruction is accompanied by the diagnosis of such period that indicates the potentials of resistance to the identity principle on the social reality. The interpretation of these texts will be object of discussion with the Professor Rahel Jaeggi at Humboldt Univerity of Berlin and her international research group. This internship project forecasts also the research in the great and rich libraries of Humboldt University and another libraries of Berlin. The bibliography that can be encountered in these libraries has the objective to update the references in German language about the Adorno's thought and about the his concept of experience. While developing these goals, it is expected to obtain more elements for the doctoral thesis, which means improving the research project. (AU)