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Dario,

Looks like you have pretty much made up my summer reading
list.

Joe


--- dario minutolo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Susanna Chandler, on Wed, 30 Apr 2003, wrote:
>
> >Theodore Adorno's extensive work on Beethoven is
> extremely apropos. He w=
> as,
> >of course, a scholar of H., and expressed his
> philosophical education an=
> d
> >individual concepts in his understanding of B's artistic
> life cycle.
>
>
> Maybe i=92m wrong but i have some difficulties
> considering Adorno as a H=92=
> s=20
> scholar. H. has been Professor in Freiburg than Marburg
> and than back in=20
> Freiburg at Husserl=92s place, while Adorno always
> studied in Frankfurt/M=
> ain =96=20
> with Kracauer at the Gymnasium than Hans Cornelius and
> Paul Tillich (a=20
> peculiar kind of existentialist and phenomenologist). He
> also studied mus=
> ic=20
> in Frankfurt before going to Wien to study Music Theory
> and Composition w=
> hit=20
> Alban Berg and Arnold Schonberg.
> Adorno=92s first dissertation (with Cornelius), =93Die
> Traszendenz des=20
> Dinglichen und Noematischen in Husserls Phanamenologie=94
> (1924) could be=
> =20
> considered the starting point for the latter  =93Zur
> Metakritik der=20
> Erkenntnistheorie. Studien uber Husserl und die
> phanamenologischen=20
> antinomien=93 (!956, but written in Oxford in the mid=92s
> thirties =96 =93=
> Against=20
> Epistemology: A Metacritique=94, 1987), in which the
> critique (a marx-heg=
> elian=20
> one based on the lack of historicity of the
> phenomenological subject) its=
> =20
> non only against Husserl but also, if not mostly, against
> Heidegger. A=20
> critique of H. that will be more direct (both politically
> and phisophical=
> ly)=20
> in =93Jargon der Eigentlickheit=94 (1965; =93The Jargon
> of Authenticity=94=
> , 1973).
> The critique of Technology could be the only common point
> between Adorno=20
> (and the all Frankfurt School, all the way to Habermas,
> trhough Benjamin=
> =20
> and Marcuse) and H., but their intentions, use of and,
> most of all, their=
> =20
> declination of the argument couldn=92t be more different.
>
> By the way, Marcuse studied at Freiburg, with Husserl and
> H., where he to=
> ok=20
> his Ph.D and where start his career as H.=92s assistant
> in 1928, trying t=
> o=20
> combine H=92n Phenomenology and Marxism (see his first
> essay: =93Beitrage=
>  zu=20
> einer Phanomenologie des Historischen Marxismus =96 which
> is exactly a wa=
> y to=20
> put history into Phenomenology =96; i don=92t know about
> an English versi=
> on).=20
> Marcuse went on trough the recent publication of Marx=92s
> =93Economic and=
> =20
> Philosophical Manuscripts of 1884=94 (see: =93Neue zur
> Grunlegung des=20
> Historischen Materialismus=94), and by 1932, with his
> Habilitation Thesis=
> =20
> (=93Hegels Ontology un die Theorie der
> Geschichtlickeit=94 -"Hegel's Onto=
> logy=20
> and the Theory of Historicity"), the breach with H., by
> that time already=
> =20
> involved with Nazi, had been consumed. Then he moves to
> the Frankfurt Sch=
> ool=20
> (with a presentation by Husserl, according to Martin Jay
> - if my memory i=
> s=20
> correct).
>
> Sorry for all these borings details, but i guess Adorno
> dosen't deserves =
> a=20
> connection with H.
>
> Nice Labour Day to all of you
> dario minutolo
>
>
>
>
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