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This article is an inquiry into the concept of metaphysical experience through a joint discussion of two authors and philosophers with different approaches that nevertheless converge in the reclamation of the concept and rely both on the experience of death as an example. In both cases, the authors are guided by the central problem of how not to relinquish metaphysical experience to unscrutinized immediacy or a powerful conversion which enjoins subjection, putting it in contact with aesthetics and ethics at once. Theodor Adorno situates metaphysical experience as a problem of philosophy of history and devotes attention to the contemporary possibility of experiences that evoke transcendence. The transformations he identifies in the concept also lead him to propose art as a domain where metaphysical experience is alive. The implicit personal investment Adorno makes is much more clear in Lacoue-Labarthe who, in a dialogue with Maurice Blanchot, shows the experience as deeply bound up with literature and its links to subjectivity. The article argues that the main difference between the two approaches is modal and temporal from the side of the object, aside from the different modes of interrogation recognized with the labels deconstruction and critical theory.
Der Kulturwissenschaftler Andreas RECKWITZ beschäftigt sich in seinem Buch mit dem Titel "Subjekt" dergestalt mit einer Reihe von strukturalistischen bzw. poststrukturalistischen Autor/innen, dass er ihre Werke als Beiträge zu einer Analyse des Subjekts in der Moderne interpretiert. In dem vorliegenden Aufsatz werden nun nicht nur diese Interpretationen in groben Zügen wiedergegeben, sondern es wird auch der Versuch unternommen, ihre die Empirie aufschließende "Kraft" zu "prüfen". In dem Bezug auf einen Ausschnitt aus dem Alltag der Schule, einer Unterrichtsstunde im Fach Deutsch, zeigt sich, wie diese unterschiedlichen "subjekttheoretischen Analysestrategien" zu jeweils anderen, interessanten und aufschlussreichen Interpretationen führen können. Darüber hinaus wird aber auch deutlich, dass auf die Vorstellung von Subjektivität – und damit auch von Bildung und Mündigkeit – nicht verzichtet werden kann. Ohne diese Vorstellung wäre die pädagogische Praxis zynisch – und ihr Verständnis unmöglich.
The article critically engages Menachem Fisch’s account of normative frameworks, in particular of (rational) transitions between them. I argue, first, that exposure to the normative criticism leveled at us by other human beings is indeed “capable of destabilizing normative commitment” to one’s own underlying framework beliefs and standards, as Fisch holds; however, closer scrutiny reveals that such exposure is neither sufficient nor necessary but rather accidental in this respect. Second, I will try to show that Søren Kierkegaard’s account of how people fundamentally change their mind provides resources for both a substantial critique of Fisch and a more adequate understanding of the transitions in question. The article argues, third, that Fisch’s framework model – though meaningful, in fact heuristically indispensable in and as of itself – has robust transcendental implications which as such are being ignored, if not directly denied by Fisch and, precisely by being ignored or denied, unnecessarily weaken the overall plausibility of his account. Finally, and ex post, I will address an important objection raised by some commentators.
Eu busco neste artigo mostrar alguns aspectos relativos a diferentes pesquisas e reflexões que empreendi em anos recentes sobre o conceito de indústria cultural. A questão central é o pensamento de Theodor W. Adorno com especial atenção para a atualidade de sua dialética negativa. Minha intervenção acerca da atualidade do conceito de indústria cultural possui três passos argumentativos: o entrelaçamento entre racionalidade e dominação como a base de uma teoria da sociedade em Adorno; algumas mudanças no capitalismo contemporâneo e suas implicações para um conceito de indústria cultural no século XXI e; a posição da indústria cultural no contexto da Sociologia brasileira. O objetivo central do artigo, produzido na forma de ensaio, é enfatizar a atualidade da teoria crítica da sociedade de Theodor Adorno mediante argumentos específicos ao campo da Sociologia.
Este artículo rastrea las categorías del proyecto moral de Adorno a partir de la barbarie experimentada en los campos de concentración nazi durante la Segunda Guerra mundial. Para ello, el autor utiliza la estrategia de pensar la filosofía a partir del modelo de la Teoría Crítica de la Escuela de Frankfort. Este novedoso proyecto orienta al hombre o cualquier idea de filosofía y ética con sentido, atendiendo nuevas categorías de la realidad fáctica. Concretamente, Adorno construye un proyecto moral que tiene como fundamento, primero, un nuevo marco para la metafísica y antropología a partir de Auschwitz y, segundo, direccionado a evitar que nuevas expresiones de barbarie como esta se repitan. Adorno expone las categorías éticas en Meditaciones sobre la metafísica en su obra Dialéctica Negativa.
Sentences containing subjective predicates - e.g., "The movie was awesome"” - are intuitively anchored to a particular perspective; this makes them different from sentences describing objective facts - e.g., "The movie was set in 1995".
While authors have long debated on whether this intuition tracks a lexical distinction between subjective and factual predicates, much remains to be explored on whether, and how, the difference between these two assertions is reflected at the illocutionary level. Relying on evidence from two experiments, we show that assertions containing subjective predicates display different discourse behavior from objective assertions. We take these findings to support the idea that SAs should be assigned a special illocutionary profile, unveiling a genuine empirical difference between subjective and factual speech.
This paper is about what Ninan (2014) (following Wollheim 1980) calls the Acquaintance Inference (AI): a firsthand experience requirement imposed by several subjective expressions such as Predicates of Personal Taste (PPTs) (delicious). In general, one is entitled to calling something delicious only upon having tried it. This requirement can be lifted, disappearing in scope of elements that we will call obviators. The paper investigates the patterns of AI obviation for PPTs and similar constructions (e.g., psych predicates and subjective attitudes). We show that the cross-constructional variation in when acquaintance requirements can be obviated presents challenges for previous accounts of the AI (Pearson 2013, Ninan 2014). In place of these, we argue for the existence of two kinds of acquaintance content: (i) that of bare PPTs; and (ii) that of psych predicates, subjective attitudes and overt experiencer PPTs.
For (i), we propose that the AI arises from an evidential restriction that is dependent on a parameter of interpretation which obviators update. For (ii), we argue that the AI is a classic presupposition. We model both (i) and (ii) using von Fintel and Gillies’s (2010) framework for directness and thus connect two strands of research: that on PPTs and that on epistemic modals. Both phenomena are sensitive to a broad direct-indirect distinction, and analyzing them along similar lines can help shed light on how natural language conceptualizes evidence in general.