Against Epistemology: A Metacritique by Theodor W. Adorno,Willis Domingo

By Theodor W. Adorno,Willis Domingo

This vintage booklet by means of Theodor W. Adorno anticipates some of the issues that experience considering that turn into universal in modern philosophy: the critique of foundationalism, the illusions of idealism and the top of epistemology. It additionally foreshadows the various key rules that have been constructed by way of Adorno in his most crucial philosophical works, together with Negative Dialectics.

Against Epistemology relies on a manuscript Adorno initially wrote in Oxford in 1934-37 in the course of his first years in exile and consequently transformed in Frankfurt in 1955-56. The textual content used to be written as a critique of Husserl’s phenomenology, however the critique of phenomenology is used because the get together for a much wider critique of epistemology. Adorno defined this as a ‘metacritique’ which blends jointly the research of Husserl’s phenomenology because the such a lot complicated example of the decay of bourgeois idealism with an immanent critique of the tensions and contradictions inner to Husserl’s concept. the result's a robust textual content which is still essentially the most devastating reviews of Husserl’s paintings ever written and which heralded a few of the principles that experience develop into typical in modern philosophy.

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