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SUMMARY:Traces of a Different Color. Adorno\, Normativity\, and Immanent Cr
 itique
DESCRIPTION:Public lecture by Peter E. Gordon.\nAccording to the well-known
  Hegelian dictum\, philosophical knowledge seeks to recognize the rational
 ity in conditions that have already gained their full actualization: it pa
 ints »gray on gray.« In Negative Dialektik\, Adorno takes exception to H
 egel’s claim\, because it would seem to prohibit the possibility of crit
 ique: »Consciousness\,« he writes\, »could not despair at all over what
  is grey\, if it did not harbor the concept of a different color\, whose s
 cattered trace is not lacking in the negative whole [Bewußtsein könnte g
 ar nicht über das Grau verzweifeln\, hegte es nicht den Begriff von einer
  verschiedenen Farbe\, deren versprengte Spur im negativen Ganzen nicht fe
 hlt].« The practice of immanent critique therefore demands that we reject
  the interpretation of Adorno’s philosophy that ascribes to it a species
  of totalizing negativism. The negative whole is not seamless or harmonist
 ic\; it is shot through with immanent traces that indicate a normative sur
 plus or unrealized possibility.\nThe event will be in English.\nPeter E. G
 ordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University.
URL:https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/295/adorno-normativity-immanent-critiq
 ue.html
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LOCATION:Casino-Gebäude\, R. 1801 (Renate von Metzler-Saal)\, Campus Weste
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