Ideal Type or Real Abstraction? On Adorno's Method
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Ideal Type or Real Abstraction? On Adorno's Method
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The paper deals with interpretation of Adorno?s sociological method vis-a-vis Honneth?s and Sohn-Rethel?s work. The starting point is Honneth?s reading of Adorno?s 1931 inaugural lecture The Actuality of Philosophy. In Honneth?s interpretation, Adorno?searly methodological proposal of ?figures? and ?models? builds on Weber?s conception of ideal type. Adorno outlines such a methodological approach intended to critically penetrate the idea of capitalist culture. With these conceptual means, Adorno attempts to discover the social process of deformation of reason. According to Honneth, Adorno?s application of ideal-typical method denudes the capitalist re-naturalization of determinate social conditions and reveals the progression of pathology of reason. Against Honneth, the paper argues Sohn-Rethel?s conception of ?real abstraction,? an abstraction derived from a non-intentional layer of practical human action, is more appropriate methodological device for interpretation of Adorno?s metho
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AO - Sociology, demography
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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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2015
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů