Abstract
Other illumination: With Adorno at the heartbeat of the post-modern intellect. In this article Adorno's critique of identity thinking and modem systems of thought are exploited within the context of the current debate of modernity. It is argued that the usurpation of the so-called Other (which the author Calls "Anderverdringing") is at the core of modem thought, and that the illumination of the Other (which the author calls "Ander-bereddering") is at the core of postmodern thought. Habermas' theory of communicative action is used to bring Adorno's critique of identity thinking to the Jore as a form ofpostmodern critique, exactly in the sense that Adorno's philosophy is essentially Otherilluminating.
Highlights
Other illumination: With Adorno at the heartbeat of the postmodern intellect In this article Adorno's critique of identity thinking and modem systems of thought are exploited within the context of the current debate of modernity
It is argued that the usurpation of the so-called Other is at the core of modem thought, and that the illumination of the Other is at the core of postmodern thought
Habermas' theory of communicative action is used to bring Adorno's critique of identity thinking to theJore as a form ofpostmodern critique, exactly in the sense that Adorno's philosophy is essentially Otherilluminating
Summary
Die postmodeme filosofie neem haar vertrek in onder andere hierdie probleem van verdringing van dinge tot buite die sisteem. En Habermas het dit by uitstek sedert die vroee tagtigerjare ingesien, tree die rede se ware aard na vore daar waar dit hom geluk om nie uit te sluit nie, maar die Ander te erken, te herken en in te sluit. Ware redelikheid sou vir die postmoderne filosofie dus 'n redelikheid wees wat bereid is om met die Ander in die reine te kom: nie daar waar sy die grense sluit en dele van die werklikheid verdring en uitban nie, maar daar waar sy die grense postmodern oopbuig en Ander werklikhede inlaat, en aan' dit wat in die moderne bewussynsfilosofiese paradigma formee nietig verklaar is, die nodige erkenning verleen. Postmoderne kritiek is daarom kritiek wat van die punt uitgaan dat moderniteit se atomisering of minstens dualisering van die werklikheid nie alleen opgehef moet word nie, maar ook introspektief en remedierend geheel kan word. As dit so is dat moderniteit subjekpropagerend, selflegitimerend, geslote, uitsluitend en letterlik vernietigend met die werklikheid van die Ander omgegaan het, wil dit wat postmoderniteit genoem word, die teenoorgestelde doen
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