Susanna Chandler, on Wed, 30 Apr 2003, wrote:
>Theodore Adorno's extensive work on Beethoven is extremely apropos. He was,
>of course, a scholar of H., and expressed his philosophical education and
>individual concepts in his understanding of B's artistic life cycle.
Maybe i’m wrong but i have some difficulties considering Adorno as a H’s
scholar. H. has been Professor in Freiburg than Marburg and than back in
Freiburg at Husserl’s place, while Adorno always studied in Frankfurt/Main –
with Kracauer at the Gymnasium than Hans Cornelius and Paul Tillich (a
peculiar kind of existentialist and phenomenologist). He also studied music
in Frankfurt before going to Wien to study Music Theory and Composition whit
Alban Berg and Arnold Schonberg.
Adorno’s first dissertation (with Cornelius), “Die Traszendenz des
Dinglichen und Noematischen in Husserls Phanamenologie” (1924) could be
considered the starting point for the latter “Zur Metakritik der
Erkenntnistheorie. Studien uber Husserl und die phanamenologischen
antinomien“ (!956, but written in Oxford in the mid’s thirties – “Against
Epistemology: A Metacritique”, 1987), in which the critique (a marx-hegelian
one based on the lack of historicity of the phenomenological subject) its
non only against Husserl but also, if not mostly, against Heidegger. A
critique of H. that will be more direct (both politically and phisophically)
in “Jargon der Eigentlickheit” (1965; “The Jargon of Authenticity”, 1973).
The critique of Technology could be the only common point between Adorno
(and the all Frankfurt School, all the way to Habermas, trhough Benjamin
and Marcuse) and H., but their intentions, use of and, most of all, their
declination of the argument couldn’t be more different.
By the way, Marcuse studied at Freiburg, with Husserl and H., where he took
his Ph.D and where start his career as H.’s assistant in 1928, trying to
combine H’n Phenomenology and Marxism (see his first essay: “Beitrage zu
einer Phanomenologie des Historischen Marxismus – which is exactly a way to
put history into Phenomenology –; i don’t know about an English version).
Marcuse went on trough the recent publication of Marx’s “Economic and
Philosophical Manuscripts of 1884” (see: “Neue zur Grunlegung des
Historischen Materialismus”), and by 1932, with his Habilitation Thesis
(“Hegels Ontology un die Theorie der Geschichtlickeit” -"Hegel's Ontology
and the Theory of Historicity"), the breach with H., by that time already
involved with Nazi, had been consumed. Then he moves to the Frankfurt School
(with a presentation by Husserl, according to Martin Jay - if my memory is
correct).
Sorry for all these borings details, but i guess Adorno dosen't deserves a
connection with H.
Nice Labour Day to all of you
dario minutolo
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