Język w filozofii – filozofia w języku. O powinowactwach nie z wyboru Heideggera i Adorna
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Jakub Górski
Language in Philosophy – Philosophy in Language. On Heidegger’s and Adorno’s Non-Elective Affinities
Abstract
In his essay Jakub Górski points out that modern comparative works of philosophy by Adorno and Heidegger are dominated by antagonizing interpretations. This kind of theoretical attitude is based on two types of thesis: the first, taken from Adorno’s critical commentary to Heidegger’s philosophy of being, puts a particular stress on anti-historical, ideological foundations of authenticity (Eigentlichkeit); the second, based on post-secular interpretations that emphasize the radically different grounds of social and anthropological thought in the philosophy of the two thinkers: mythical (Heidegger) and Jewish (Adorno). The abovementioned thesis leads to one conclusion: there are no affinities between the models of subjectivity of Adorno and Heidegger.
In opposition to this obligatory interpretation, Górski shows the possible way out from that dichotomous theoretical impasse. He writes about “undesirable” similarities, describing a model of metaphysical experience as a structure mediated in philosophical language theory, based on J.G Hamann’s idea of mystical language of reality. On this common ground he describes parallels between Heidegger’s allegorical categories of linguistic “silence”/”mute” and Adorno’s concepts of linguistic non-identity and particularity. These considerations lead to the main conclusion: a dynamic, metaphysical structure of linguistic reality–experience determines the main features in the subject-object relations in the thought of both Heidegger and Adorno. Simultaneously, it creates an area of dialogue, which might be more constructive than sustaining the ideologically grounded antagonistic relations.
Keywords: deconstruction, criticism, language, subjectivity, negativity, nonidentity, being, experience, post-secular, post-metaphysical, idiomatical, Adorno, Heidegger, Benjamin.
Language in Philosophy – Philosophy in Language. On Heidegger’s and Adorno’s Non-Elective Affinities
Abstract
In his essay Jakub Górski points out that modern comparative works of philosophy by Adorno and Heidegger are dominated by antagonizing interpretations. This kind of theoretical attitude is based on two types of thesis: the first, taken from Adorno’s critical commentary to Heidegger’s philosophy of being, puts a particular stress on anti-historical, ideological foundations of authenticity (Eigentlichkeit); the second, based on post-secular interpretations that emphasize the radically different grounds of social and anthropological thought in the philosophy of the two thinkers: mythical (Heidegger) and Jewish (Adorno). The abovementioned thesis leads to one conclusion: there are no affinities between the models of subjectivity of Adorno and Heidegger.
In opposition to this obligatory interpretation, Górski shows the possible way out from that dichotomous theoretical impasse. He writes about “undesirable” similarities, describing a model of metaphysical experience as a structure mediated in philosophical language theory, based on J.G Hamann’s idea of mystical language of reality. On this common ground he describes parallels between Heidegger’s allegorical categories of linguistic “silence”/”mute” and Adorno’s concepts of linguistic non-identity and particularity. These considerations lead to the main conclusion: a dynamic, metaphysical structure of linguistic reality–experience determines the main features in the subject-object relations in the thought of both Heidegger and Adorno. Simultaneously, it creates an area of dialogue, which might be more constructive than sustaining the ideologically grounded antagonistic relations.
Keywords: deconstruction, criticism, language, subjectivity, negativity, nonidentity, being, experience, post-secular, post-metaphysical, idiomatical, Adorno, Heidegger, Benjamin.
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