Against Epistemology by Adorno, Theodor W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Content Dedication Preface Introduction

Procedure and Object Immanent Critique Mediating the First Mathematicizaton Concept of Method Promoting the Subject Persistence as Truth The Elementary The Regressive Philosophy of Origins and Epistemology System and Debit Opposing Forces in Epistemology The Drive for System Doctrine of Antinomies Nominalism Motivation and Tendency of Ontology Illusory Concretization and Formalism New and Old

1 Critique of Logical Absolutism

Philosophy, Metaphysics and Science Contradiction in Scientificization Concept of Intuition Husserl’s Scientism Dialectic in Spite of Itself A Head-Start for Science ‘Realism’ in Logic The Logical In-Itself Presupposition of Logical Absolutism Essence and Development (Entfaltung) Calculators, Logic and Mechanics Reification of Logic The Logical ‘Object’ Autosemantic and Synsemantic Expressions Logical Laws and Laws of Thought Aporia of Logical Absolutism Relating Genesis and Validity Genesis and Psychology Thinking and Psychologism The Law of Non-Contradiction The Law of Identity Contingency Abandoning the Empirical Phenomenological and Eidetic Motifs

2 Species and Intention

Propositions in Themselves and Essences Lived Experience (Erlebnis) and ‘Sense’ Critique of Singular ‘Senses’ Origin of Essential Insight (Wesensschau) ‘Ideational Abstraction’ Abstraction and τόδΙ τί The Primacy of Meaning Analysis (Bedeutungsanalyse) The Function of the Noema Noema and Ιἶδος Relation Between the Two Reductions Noema as Hybrid Essence and ‘Factual States of Consciousness’ Antinomy of Subjectivism and Eidetics ‘Eidetic Variations’ Essence as Fiction

3 Epistemological Concepts in Dialectic

Phenomenology as Epistemology Positivism and Platonism Husserl’s Concept of Givenness ‘Foundation’ (Fundierung) Ontologization of the Factical Thing as Model of the Given Givenness Mediated in Itself The Subject of Givenness Paradoxia of Pure Intuition Matter as Fulfilment Sensation and Perception Antinomy of the Doctrine of Perception Sensation and Materialism Epistemology as Elementary Analysis ‘Gestalt’ Intentionality and Constitution Enter Noesis and Noema The Forgotten Synthesis Critique of Correlation Theory Pure Identity and Noematic Core The Primacy of Objectifying Acts Thing as Clue (Leitfaden) Antinomy of the Noema Critique Dismissed Antagonism to System Husserl’s Transition to Transcendental Idealism Fragility of the System

4 Essence and Pure Ego

Husserl and his Successors Phenomenology Attempts to Break Out Self-Revocation Character of Immanence and the Fetishism of the Concept ‘Attitude’ (Einstellung) Fantasy and Body Categorial Intuition The Paradoxical Apex The Provenance of Logical Absolutism Fulfilment of Unsensed Moments ‘Becoming Aware’ (Gewahrwerdung) Motivation of Objectivism Withering Away of Argument Phenomenology as Philosophy of Reflection The System in Ruins Advanced and Restorative Elements Natural History Museum Abstract Ideal of Security Infinitization of the Temporal Origin of the εἶδος Ego Consciousness, Pure Essence, Time Transcendental Ego and Facticity Equivocation of ‘I’ Solipsism The Aporia of Transcendental Experience The End of Idealism

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