Adorno's Concept Of Absolute Negation

Among multitudes of western Marxists,Adorno can be said to be the representative of them.His interpretation about the concept of absolute negation constitutes the main content in his works,which is of important guiding significance and spiritual support for his works.In the previous western philosophy,the basic rule of western culture was identity.In the process of pursuing identity,people gradually found themselves disable to make self-reflection,which further led people into the reality of the disaster.Aiming at the disasters and troubles facing mankind,Adorno expounded on the concept of absolute negation and thoroughly refuted the philosophy of the identity in the past.The paper emphatically discusses the idea of the absolute negation in the previous philosophy,as well as the different perceptions of Adorno's absolute negation in social and artistic dimension,epistemology and dialectics.By analyzing the importance of absolute negation in the real world and the exploration of Marxism,it enables people to have a further understanding of the idea of "absolute negation".In terms of Adorno's concept of "absolute negation",harsh refutation and criticism could be found in his works about the concept of identity in previous philosophy.From the dialectic level,the concept of absolute negation stated in it refutes about the negative negation,negation and affirmation in the former dialectics.Always adhering to the absolute negation,it argued that the dialectics with negative meaning is the real dialectics.From the perspective of epistemology,it criticizes about the identity of subject and object and positivism severely,and denies the concept first principle,pointing out that these epistemologies are overly homogeneous.Therefore,it claims that the concept should be disenchanted.Meanwhile,the idea of object priority is also proposed based on the identity of subject and object.From the perspective of artistic dimension,it criticizes the control of traditional arts over people's aesthetic pursuit,opposes the compulsory artistic thinking,and advocates the art of modernity as a kind of critical art.In terms of social history,he completely repudiates the power of capitalist society.The concept of absolute negation explained by him has created great significance to the exploration of classic and western Marxism,which also helps us further understand the contemporary economic and cultural life.Adorno's concept of absolute negation provides a new level to analyze the world and study on philosophy.Such ideological ideal helps break through the old thinking impasse and overturn the basis of the concept of identity.At the same time,it also makes us realize that there are many defects in the idea.