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Adorno’s "Negative Dialectics"

Posted on:2016-01-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330461490678Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Adorno is an important representative of the contemporary Western Marxist philosophy, is one of the core members of the Frankfurt school, his book "negative dialectics" of his life philosophy essence, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school provides deep philosophical foundation. It is an important representative works.This paper firstly introduces the background of Adorno, analyses Adorno’s academic and ideological origin. Adorno’s time for the middle of nineteenth Century, with the collapse of Hagel’s philosophy, western philosophy is gradually changing. With the changes of capitalist social economic structure and political pattern after the two world wars, the theme of the western philosophy and Marxist philosophy are changed, leads philosophy is more close to the reality, people pay more attention to the. In addition, the Kantian thought, Schoenberg’s no tune music research, and cooperation and exchanges with Horkheimer, Adorno gradually formed his own ideas.Secondly, this paper through combing the development of the dialectics of history, mainly the dialectic connotation of ancient Greek philosophy and German classical philosophy and Marxist philosophy, traces the Adorno’s Negative Dialectics "origin. The dialectical law of the development experience of ancient Greek philosophy and simple dialectics of nature, through the baptism of the modern science and philosophy until development to Hegel’s philosophy, dialectics has formed a huge and thorough "positive and negative" three segment type system, from the beginning of the "pure existence" to "absolute spirit" self realization, during after a series of negation of negation, and ultimately achieve the subject and object, thinking and existence, freedom and necessity in the spirit of eventual reunification. Marx terminated the dialectics of Hegel’s idealism and will negate the negative reduction to practice activities of human beings, to create the practice of dialectic materialism, dialectics history of the great revolution.Thirdly, this paper through the interpretation of Adorno’s "negative dialectics" core idea, clarify the relationship between Marx’s philosophy of Adorno’s thoughts. Adorno’s "negative dialectics based on practical philosophy founded by Marx, inherit and carry forward the Marxist practical subject to criticism of negative dialectical spirit of law, and with the theme of the spirit and in the 19th and 20th centuries of modern philosophy, the Marxist philosophy profound criticalness, openness and vitality, and which contains a Marxist Philosophy and postmodern philosophy transformation possibility of. Admittedly, Adorno’s philosophy also has a lot of non Marxism, and there are some limitations, but it is still in a unique way to express the Marxist criticism, negative and practice spirit. The "negative dialectics" philosophy of construction in contemporary China has considerable theoretical and practical significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Adorno, Marx, Hegel, Dialectics, Negative
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