INDEX

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Adorno, Theodor: “The Actuality of Philosophy,” 109, 221n35, 221n36, 223n31; Aesthetic Theory, 35, 64, 75, 96, 114, 134, 135, 152, 173, 189, 199, 211n34, 214n22, 224n5, 224n10, 225n31, 225n36, 226n37, 226n43, 227n47, 227n48, 227n63, 227n65, 228n65, 229n73, 229n74; Against Epistemology, 80–81, 84, 211n35, 212n39, 219n3; Dialectic of Enlightenment, x, xii, 4–7, 10, 21, 22, 31, 33–36, 40, 42, 45, 65, 68, 74, 122, 141, 149, 158, 215n49, 217n69, 229n73; “Husserl and the Problem of Idealism,” 80, 219n3; Lectures on Negative Dialectics, 128; Minima Moralia, 2, 29, 35, 36, 96, 102, 103, 114, 214n20, 222n7; Negative Dialectics, 6, 24, 29, 35, 54, 68, 86, 90, 91, 95, 96, 99, 100, 106, 109, 128, 139, 199, 211n34, 214n22, 217n71, 217n80, 218n1, 219n3, 220n23, 220n24, 221n47, 221n1, 222n22, 227n57; and sociology, 39–40

aesthetic analysis, xx, 183, 185, 189–190

aesthetic experience, 29, 71, 76, 104, 149, 183, 197, 198

aesthetic form, 135–138, 145–146, 151–153, 155, 157, 161–165, 168, 170, 174, 176–180, 187, 190–196, 198, 204, 206–207, 214n26, 222n7, 223–224n2, 225n32, 225n34, 227n47, 227n63, 229n76; formal demands, 136, 137, 146, 151, 153, 155, 164, 178, 179, 193, 225n30; formal unity, 158, 177, 194, 226n37; sonata form, 151, 161, 192–195

aesthetic material, xix, 137, 144–145, 154, 157, 166, 186, 188, 195–196, 226n37; autonomy of, 160–165; as dominated by the artwork, 154–156, 158, 159, 178, 222n7; as formal, 151–153, 164–165, 176, 178, 193; as reflecting socio-historical content, 165–172, 177, 177–178

aesthetico-logical properties, xv, 164–166, 168, 170, 176–179, 189

Althusser, Louis, 198

antinomy, 1, 30, 47, 87, 90, 92, 94, 118, 127, 132

apperception, 4–5

aporia, 1, 140–141, 177–178

art: and authentic art, x, xii, 1, 54, 71, 75, 78, 132, 136, 138, 155, 163, 178, 198, 206, 214n19, 214n26, 226n43; enigmaticalness of, 148, 181; and philosophy as sharing a unified truth content, xvi, xx, 142–143, 149, 188; and the “shudder,” 76, 104, 134, 148–149, 158, 188; spiritualization of, 161–162

art-appreciator, the, xiii, xx, 140, 143, 178–180, 188

artistic creation: as following formal demands, 151–153; and “immanent lawfulness,” 164; as organized from below, 118, 151, 190, 227n48

artworks: as “blind,” xv, 56, 146, 147, 153, 159, 163, 165, 168, 178; as culpably “reconciled” to society, 195–196; as dominating their materials, xii–xiii, 147, 155–159, 163, 165, 172, 178, 222n7, 227n47; as expressions of social order, xii, xx, 62, 136–138, 147–148, 160, 165–169, 191–192, 222n7; as hermetically sealed, xix, 71, 145–147, 149, 152–154, 156, 159–160, 163, 166, 168–169, 172, 177; as mimetic, xii–xiii, 140–141, 145–146, 157, 168–169, 171, 173, 214n26, 227n47, 228n72, 229n73, 229n74; as rational, x, xii–xiii, xv, 71, 76, 136–138, 141–142, 144, 146, 157, 162, 164, 168–169, 186, 228n72; and self-mimesis, 146–147; and social content, 27, 136–138, 165, 207, 214n26, 229n74; as a “windowless monad,” 136, 144–147, 160

Austin, J. L., xvi, 221n48

autonomy, 24, 30, 31, 37, 51, 55, 59, 60, 78, 90, 191, 201, 219n21; of aesthetic processes of formation, 150–160, 178; of art, 145–150, 153–154, 156–163, 165–170, 172, 176, 179, 187, 226n37, 227n50, 227–228n65, 229n74; of function, 160, 163–165, 168–170; the guilt of art’s autonomy, 152–154, 158, 162, 226n43; of selection, 160–162

 

Beckett, Samuel, 199

van Beethoven, Ludwig, 136, 161, 190–197; use of motives, 192, 194–195; use of reprise, 196–197

Benjamin, Walter, 60–61, 65, 74, 175, 203, 216n56, 218n95, 229n87,

Berg, Alban, 136,

Bergson, Henri, 84, 95

Brecht, Bertolt, 136, 223–224n2,

Brooks, Cleanth, xiv

Buck-Morss, Susan, 60, 203, 219n5

Butler, Judith, xvi, 221n48

 

capitalism, 41, 153,

class consciousness, 55–56, 60, 66

collective unconsciousness, Benjamin’s theory of, 60–61

commodity exchange, 58–59, 216n63, 216n65

commodity fetishism, 59

commodity form, 58–59

concepts: basic concepts, 23, 28, 36, 44–50, 53, 55, 69; conceptual arrays, 33, 44, 47–50, 52–55, 57, 65–66, 69–71, 73, 85, 92, 119, 122–126, 129–132, 139, 173, 179–180, 187, 214n19, 215n40, 223n23; conceptual breakouts, 98, 105–109, 113, 118, 119, 122, 123, 128, 130, 149, 174; conceptual schemes, 48; conceptual sets, 33, 36, 44, 46–50, 53, 55, 69; as delusive, 19, 73–75, 84, 86, 87, 92, 94, 106–107, 112, 118, 125, 127–129, 139, 142, 143, 213n16, 225n32; and embodiment, 46, 48, 55; empirical concepts, 10, 38, 122, 214n19; as “idea-tools,” 8, 27, 65; and impulses/drives, xi, 9, 25, 28, 32, 37, 38, 44, 53, 64, 70, 74, 78, 212n40; as loosely arbitrary, 9, 210n21; the “movement of the concept,” 87, 104, 106, 113, 118; non-basic concepts, 46–48, 52, 54–57, 65–66, 69–70; as self-preserving, x–xi, 6, 8–10, 19–20, 24–25, 27, 28, 31–33, 36, 37, 39–46, 50, 53–54, 63–66, 68–69, 73–75, 77–78, 88–91, 94, 131–132, 140, 158, 211n34, 220n27; separation of concept and thing, 11–15, 17, 20–23; transcendental concepts, 10, 38; as universally valid, 29, 30, 32, 44–48, 55, 70–71

conceptual self-reflexivity, 143, 206, 207

constellations, 94–98, 111, 113, 124, 127, 219n17, 221n31; in art, 173–177; as generated immanently through concept use, 114, 117

construction, xv, xix, xx, 135, 143–144, 151, 168, 204, 228n72, 229n74; as formal, 137, 165, 179, 226n37; as problematized by mediation, 143, 163; as resulting in critique, 148

contradiction, xv, 5, 11, 13, 14, 33, 42, 55, 72, 81, 86–88, 92, 94, 100, 105, 116, 118, 120, 124, 164, 188, 212n39, 220n24; aesthetic contradictions, 168, 170, 171, 177–179, 183, 195, 225n30; apparent contradiction, 26, 35, 86, 144; latent contradictions, 171, 179; law of non-contradiction, 42; social contradictions, 43, 88, 90, 97, 166

Cook, Deborah, 3

consciousness, xi, 16, 17, 34, 36, 45, 46, 48, 56, 59, 72, 103, 124, 149, 162, 215, 220n24, 225n31; and the artwork, xvi, 140, 148; and concepts, 66, 124, 158; as determined, 62, 67–68, 84, 89, 91; forms of in Phenomenology of Spirit, 115, 117, 162; maturation of, 50–52; and the object, 28, 78, 80, 85; and the performance, xvi, xix, xx, 76, 87, 106, 109–110, 111, 113, 119, 120, 123, 129, 181–183, 222n22; and the philosophical text, xvi, 76, 87, 106, 109, 111, 113, 119, 120; primitive consciousness, 7–9, 18–19, 22–24, 35, 36, 40–41, 44–50, 64, 68, 217n83, 220n24; self-consciousness, 86, 108, 196; and self-preservation, 38–39, 41, 44, 46, 67–68. 158

Cornelius, Hans, 211n35, 219n5

Cremonini, Leonardo, 198

critique,75, 113, 128, 129, 133, 189, 218, 224n5; of concepts, ix, xiii, 54, 95, 96, 106, 107, 109, 112, 129, 130, 143, 177–182, 186, 188; dialectical critique, 81, 124, 130; of identity thinking, 129, 130, 194; of mediation of experience, 143; through art, 136–138, 140–142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152–154, 160, 163, 165–166, 169, 171–175, 177–182, 187–188, 191, 192, 228n65; transcendent critique, 81

“cry of terror,” 6, 11, 15, 20, 22–23, 33, 36, 39, 46, 123

 

Dahlhaus, Carl, 167, 214n26

deduction, 79, 87, 100–101, 111, 113, 116, 122, 219n21

determination: delusive, 72–76, 78, 84–85; revelatory, 72, 75, 78, 97–98; rich, 57–59, 61–62, 64, 69; thin determination, 57, 61–62, 64–66, 68–73, 75, 78, 85, 88–89, 94, 104, 119, 140, 169–172, 177–178, 180, 195, 218n86;

dialectics, xiv, 69, 75, 86, 95, 107–110, 115, 125, 139, 220n24

dialectical concepts, 15, 23, 35, 41, 45–46, 77, 79, 85, 212n39, 217n83

discontinuous experience, 84, 204, 212n39; as causing the “cry of terror,” 20, 123; as occasioning concepts, 22–23, 35–37. 45–46, 64, 123; as pragmatically unsustainable, 24, 41; produced by art, 104

drives, 9, 25, 28, 32, 36–38, 44, 53, 64, 74

 

enlightenment, the, 41, 43, 158–159, 162

epistemology, ix–x, xii–xiii, xvii, 1, 80–81, 84, 86, 104, 123, 149, 160, 211n35, 211–212n39

epistemic negativism, 2, 86–88, 90, 94–100, 105, 215n45,

experience, xi–xii, xv, xvii, 21–23, 26, 27, 33–34, 42, 44, 48, 51, 53, 55, 58, 59, 63, 66–68, 72, 74, 76, 77, 79–84, 91, 109–110, 128, 131, 169, 170, 171, 175, 200, 204, 206, 210n10, 211–212n39, 217n83, 218n1, 219n5, 221n31, 230n98; experience and concepts, 2–6, 8–10, 14–15, 17–21, 24, 25, 28, 32, 34–39, 41, 44, 49–50, 53, 64, 66, 68, 85, 91–93, 104, 110, 122–123, 133, 138–140, 143, 173, 176, 179, 180, 186–188, 199, 214n19, 224n10; experience of art, x, xx, 29, 71, 76, 78, 84, 104, 139–140, 146, 148–149, 161, 170, 175, 179, 180, 183, 185, 187, 197–198, 203, 206; experience of the limits of rationality, xvi, 7, 110, 122–124, 129, 149, 173, 179; experience of the non-identical, xiv, xix, 2, 7, 75, 76, 86, 87, 99, 103–104, 106, 108, 124, 126, 129, 139, 149, 188, 225n32, 226n43; experience of truth, xvi, xvii, 99–101, 104, 106, 108, 109, 171, 185, 197; experiential justification, xiv; “full, unreduced, experience,” 62, 75; nonconceptual experience, 5–6, 20, 149

 

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 212n40

freedom, 33, 37, 129, 153; and art, 157, 161, 196, 228n65; Kant’s conception of, 29–31, 213n8, 213n10; legal freedom, 73

formal problematics, 137, 151, 170, 198, 226n37; and socio-conceptual problematics, 155, 170–171, 178, 180, 195

Frazer, James George, 7, 210n16

Freud, Sigmund, 37, 50; solipsistic developmental psychology of, 51

 

Geist, 162

genetic fallacy, 25, 34, 36–37

geometric points, 91

Grandville, J. J., 203

 

Hegel, G. W. F., 16–17, 51, 67, 85, 110, 115, 117–118, 162, 190–191, 196, 203, 227n57; Phenomenology of Spirit, 16, 115, 117

hegelian, xx, 61, 79, 190, 191, 212n39, 213n10, 213n15

Heidegger, Martin, 80, 95, 218n2

heteronomy, 145, 147–150, 152–160, 166, 168–170, 172

history, 26, 29, 70, 148, 149, 158, 166, 180, 227n57; and art, 62, 166, 180, 191; of reason, 6, 33–35, 47, 62

Hobson, R. Peter, 51

holistic theory of falsity, 92–94, 106, 112, 124–125, 128, 132, 140

Holocaust, the, xv

Honneth, Axel, 51, 57–58, 60, 62, 215n44, 215n45

Horkheimer, Max, x, 4, 7, 11, 24–25, 33, 41, 65, 141, 211n35, 219n5

Horowitz, Gregg M., viii, 156–158, 161, 179, 227–228n65

Husserl, Edmund, viii, 21–22, 80–83, 211n35, 211–212n39, 218n2, 219n5

 

identity thinking, 62–64, 77, 91, 124, 129–130, 138, 154–155, 158–160, 162, 170, 172, 182, 193, 194; hammer blow to, 124, 130

ideology, 60, 72, 152, 153, 171, 196

immanent critique, 96, 108, 111, 223n2

immediacy, 94; and aesthetic experience, 182–185, 194; of experience, 67–68, 72, 131, 140; of phenomena, 9, 16–17, 68, 73–75, 82; as produced by mediacy, 63, 81, 90, 170; as socially determined, 61; of truth, 93, 101, 182–185

impulse, xi, 37, 70, 78, 81, 97, 141, 152, 212n40

induction, 8, 16, 79, 87, 101, 111, 116, 122, 219n21,

instrumental reason, 8–10, 105, 132, 153, 227–228n65

internal contradiction, 30, 79, 90, 94, 98, 109, 112, 122; as caused by a holistic epistemic whole, 92–93; as socially caused, 42–43, 97

irrationalism, 107, 125–128

 

Jarvis, Simon, 62, 213n7

Jay, Martin, 40

 

Kafka, Franz, 199

Kandinsky, Wassily, 198

Kant, Immanuel, 4–6, 8–10, 19, 20, 29–32, 36, 38–39, 44, 46, 51, 79, 95, 122, 191, 210n10, 210n12, 213n8, 213n10, 213n15; Metaphysical Deduction, 4, 32, 36, 46; Transcendental Deduction, 4

Klein, Melanie, 50

knowledge, x–xiv, xvii–ix, 8, 14, 16, 21, 84, 89, 99, 122, 126, 130, 143, 158, 183–186, 195, 219n5; absolute knowledge, 117; by acquaintance, 126; art as a kind of, xiii, xvii, xix, 76, 139, 140, 142, 144, 146, 160, 169, 172; conceptual knowledge, 8, 38–39; negative form of, 105; of nonidentity, xii, 85–87, 106, 118, 139, 173, 180; of particulars, 16–18, 82, 112; self-knowledge, 51; self-reflexive knowledge, 90; of the totality, 72

 

language, ix, xiv, 38, 115, 154, 176, 181, 184, 198–200, 218n2, 225n31; emergence of, 10–16

logic, 42–43, 92, 108, 164, 187, 191–192, 194–195, 217n80

Lukacs, Georg, 40, 55, 57- 58, 62, 136, 223n2

 

magic, 12, 132, 140–141, 210n16, 210n17

Marx, Karl, 58–63, 73, 203, 216n62, 216n63, 216–217n65

materialism, 56, 67, 110

Mead, G. H., 51

mediation, xvii, xx, 61, 62, 119, 176, 191, 207; agonic mediation, 88–91, 93, 97, 212n39; and art, 142, 150, 159, 166–172, 177, 180, 197; breakdown in mediation, 87, 120, 124, 126, 131, 173, 175, 185, 186, 188; as causing conceptual error, 88–91, 110, 124, 125, 131, 146, 173; concepts as immune to, 43; delusive mediation, 139, 143, 149, 173, 175; of experience, 4–6, 15, 18, 20, 24, 28, 32, 38, 39, 53, 81, 110, 122, 133, 139–140, 143, 176, 179, 180, 186, 199, 214n19, 224n10; of the object, 28, 36, 75, 76, 110, 131, 132; via parents, 53; of perception, 19, 178; and reification, 62, 64; via the social totality, 84, 88–91, 98, 179, 196, 197, 204; transcendental account of, 20; unmediated experience, 19–20, 50, 64, 120

metacritique, 98, 112, 142

metalogical, 31, 33, 111, 213n7

Miller, Jared, 211n35

mimesis, 135; and art, xx, 140, 141, 145–147, 161, 171, 173, 228n72, 229n73, 229n74; of domination, xii–xiii, 157, 168–169, 227n47; mimetic engagement, 120; self-mimesis, 146, 147

modernism, 161, 194

Moore, Henry, 198

 

Name, the, 95, 175, 229n87

necessity: contingent,43, 53–54, 70, 71, 131; pragmatic, 20–26, 28, 49, 53

nonidentity, xi–xix, 2–3, 87, 91, 104, 106, 108, 110, 130–133, 138, 213n15, 220n24, 223n34; as itinerant feature of conceptual schemes, 131; “logical” argument for, 90–91, 223n34

noumena, 29–30, 39

 

object-relations theory, 50–53, 69

oblique reflection, 160, 162, 168–170, 172, 177, 186

O’Connor, Brian, vii, 68–69, 210n21

ontogenetic, 6, 34–37, 44–45,

 

Paddison, Max, 167–169, 220n23, 228n72, 229n76

performance, xvi, xix, 76, 86–88, 103, 105, 110–113, 117–122, 124, 128, 185–186, 222n9, 222n22; and cogitative productivity, 87, 99, 101–102, 111, 117, 121, 123, 184, 221n47; Durchfuhrung, xix

performativity, xvi, 87, 103, 109–110, 112, 125, 221n48; of the artwork, 177–180, 187, 199; in the experience of the art-appreciator, xvi, xx, 103–104, 173, 179; in the experience of the reader of the philosophical text, xvi, xix, 88, 103–104, 106, 109–111, 113, 119–120, 124; performative engagement of the agent, 180–188; scope of the truth of, 129–130; of the text, 117–124, 187; truth of, 125–129

phenomenology, 80–82, 203, 211n35; destructive phenomenology, 117

phenomenal ontology, 5

phylogenetic, 6, 24–25, 34–37

pragmatic contexts, 32, 40, 42–43, 55, 64, 66,

pragmatic structures: and concepts, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 24–25, 27, 28, 32, 42–44, 50, 55, 65–66, 73, 212n40; and infant development, 52–53; and self-preservation, 20, 24, 25, 27, 50, 53, 77; and the social totality, 40–41; and universality, 46–47, 53, 55–57, 65–66, 69

predication, 90–93, 132, 211n39; simple predication, 90–91, 132

progress, 162

protention, 22

Proust, Marcel, xx, 197–207

 

radical particularity, 39, 68

rationality, x, xii, xiv, 4, 7, 11, 23, 25, 34, 37, 41, 74, 137, 213, 217n80; of artworks, xii–xiii, xv, 71, 76, 137, 138, 140–142, 144, 146, 157, 168, 169, 228n72; limits of, xvi

recognition (Anerkennung), 51, 215n45

reification, 51, 55, 57–66, 73, 75, 77, 78, 89, 94, 125, 140, 169, 170, 203, 215n44, 217n69, 224n10

relativism, 32, 56, 127

retention, 22

revolutionary praxis, 60

rhetoric, xvii, xix, 1, 12, 20, 35–36, 56, 76, 87, 111, 114, 135; as philosophical content, xiv, xix, 2–3, 103–104, 113–120, 197, 222n22

rich analysis, 96, 98, 103, 111–112, 127

riddles, 99, 127, 151–152, 225–226n37

Rose, Gillian, 63–64

 

Schoenberg, Arnold, 136

Scholem, Gershom, 96, 175

self-preservation, 77–78, 229n73, 231–232n31; and the body, 45–46; as causing error in the concept, 19, 28, 63, 73–75, 88–90, 94, 158, 170, 215n49, 220n27; and conceptual universality, 31–33, 36, 40–44, 54, 64–66; as determining concepts, 6, 8–10, 19–20, 24–25, 27–28, 37, 39, 43, 50, 53, 68–69, 131–132, 146, 211n34; and reason, x, xi, 6

semblance, 135, 145, 161–162, 165–166, 171, 176, 180, 226n43,

skepticism, 94–95, 107, 121, 125–128

“social law,” 62, 191, 195

social totality, 47, 72, 77, 78, 84, 111, 132, 138, 188, 217n71; agon of, 88–93, 97; and art, 163, 170–172, 177, 188, 191, 195–196; as compelling self-preservation, 40–41, 44, 54, 63, 74, 77; as determining concept formation, 69–70; as determining experienced regularities, 66, 70; as determining objects of experience, 68–70, 72–75, 170; as reciprocally determined by concepts, 71

Sohn-Rethel, Alfred, 56, 216n56

Strawson, P. F., 48–50, 215n40, 215n41

syllogism, 13–14

 

tautology, 11–16

texture, xv, xix, xx, 51, 59, 68, 74, 76, 83, 84, 86–88, 103–106, 110, 113, 116–120, 123, 173, 180, 188; Gewebe, xv, xix, 86–87, 105, 116; textural display of conceptual movement, xix, 87, 113, 119, 124, 177, 180; textural theory of truth, 134

Tiedemann, Rolf, 213n16

Tomasello, Michael, 51

truth: by acquaintance, 16, 118, 125–126, 173, 185, 188; analytic truths, 100, 220n23; atemporal truth, 3, 83, 89, 213n9; and deduction, 79, 87, 100–101, 111, 113, 116, 122, 219n21; by demonstration, xv, 2, 99, 107, 110–112, 116, 121, 125–126, 129, 130, 173, 183–184, 192, 198; discursive truth, 100–103, 111, 118, 134, 141, 182–187; and the flash of experience, 99–102, 104, 119, 123, 128; and inference, 99, 101–102, 113, 121, 124, 129, 141, 184, 195; and the “mathematical model,” 99, 101, 102, 111, 121, 123, 184; nondiscursive truth, 100–101, 184; and “philosophical proof,” 99, 101, 121, 184; sociohistorical truth, 29, 32, 33, 42, 45, 47, 55, 61, 76, 144, 158, 163, 166, 175, 178, 196–197, 213n7, 213n9, 220n23, 229n76; truth-makers, 93

truth content, 56; of artworks, 113, 135, 138, 140, 167, 172, 175, 180, 182, 184, 190, 192, 229n76; philosophy and art as converging in, 142–143, 181–182, 188,

typing concepts, 10; priority of, 38–39

 

universality: of basic conceptual sets and arrays, 44–54; conceptual arrays, 44–71, 85, 92, 119, 122–125, 131–132, 139, 187; conceptual employment, 4, 25, 31, 33–44, 53–54, 131–132, 170, 211n34, 213n15; of nonbasic conceptual sets and arrays, 54–72; social universality, 47, 48, 52, 54–55, 57, 65–66, 69, 75, 92, 119, 125, 139;

utopia, 17, 124, 128, 175, 213n16, 226n43

 

Vexierbild, 151–152, 225–226n37

 

Webern, Anton, 136

Winnicott, Donald, 50–52