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| Author(s): |
Mariana Fidelis Jerônimo de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2021-10-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Sergio Repa;
Yara Adario Frateschi;
Franciele Bete Petry;
Eduardo Soares Neves Silva
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| Advisor: | Luiz Sergio Repa |
| Abstract | |
At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno\'s Negative Dialectics (1966) seems absent from any political meaning, since it denies the passage to praxis and is dedicated to a philosophical self-reflection on the main idealist categories. Nevertheless, it proposes a theoretical-philosophical activity that is conceived as a placeholder for the possibility of social criticism in the administered world through a sort of utopian thought. The hypothesis of this work is that the notions of utopia and critique of identity, present in Negative Dialectics explicitly in an epistemological sense, would also be able to open its political dimension. They would be the keys to understanding how Adorno\'s Critical Theory could still preserve some impulses of the political interest of Critical Theory which, according to its Marxist heritage, aims not only at the critique of capitalist society, but also the fundamental perspective of human emancipation. Furthermore, by carrying out a thorough critique of identity as a principle of thought, Adorno could contribute to the understanding of the recent historical shift of this concept from the field of logic/epistemology to that of ethics/politics. At the end, we propose a convergence between the Adornian critique of identity thinking and the Post- and Decolonial critique of modern colonialism, seeking a model for understanding and updating the negative dialectics in its epistemological and political dimension. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/15181-9 - Philosophy and Social Theory: on the political meaning of utopia in Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics. |
| Grantee: | Mariana Fidelis Jerônimo de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |