Adorno's WeWe
Adorno points to Kant’s use of ‘we’ but Adorno uses “we” in
the course of his own analysis of Kant.
Kant too uses an implicit ‘we’ in his search for a ground in the
abstractions and passive voice. Kant
points to a “we” and an “I”. Adorno
quotes Kant’s “‘We’”, but Adorno uses “we” without quotes when Adorno is
somehow referring to his own contemporaneous “we.” Adorno and Kant both have
we-weies. Seriously, is Adorno’s “we”-we the same as Kant’s after it has passed
through fascism and Soviet communism and penetrating the period of State
capitalism. Adorno passes his “we”-we into individuals, society, and history; hence Adorno’s we-we can’t be the
same {as big?} as Kant’s? Adorno is
comparing his own we-we to Kant’s. Adorno moves toward a philosophy of non-identity
and that negates a systematizing impulse.
However, it is in the ‘We’ that he presumes is a system of sorts that is
applicable to “Humanitat” not just to Europeans. His atlas of society and philosophy reaches
from his office to the world. Yet there
is no doubt that the “domination of nature’ and the principle of exchange are
either abstract enough or actually pervasive enough to capture the world and
penetrate the lives of everyone.
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