Abstract

ROBLES, Gustavo Matías. The Naturalism of Theodor Adorno’s Subjektkritik. Diánoia [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.78, pp.3-26. ISSN 0185-2450.

The aim of this paper is to show that the singularity of Adorno’s critique of the philosophical subject is based on a naturalistic motif that reveals the limits of a rationalistic concept of subjectivity. I will try to pin down such concept of nature and to highlight its critical and philosophical potential for a Subjektkritik. This will both enable me to distinguish Adorno’s critique from other models of critique, and to defend his approach as a theoretical proposal for a nonrepressive notion of subjectivity with the power to disarticulate the modern model of personal identity.

Keywords : critique; subject; nature; materialism; reason.