Antoine Athanassiadis

Hegel in Adorno’s post-Hegelianism

Abstract According to a widely accepted interpretation, the dialectics of Adorno and Hegel pursue opposite goals despite their similar terminology. Adorno employs immanent critique and determinate negation within a negativistic model of social criticism, diagnosing the irrational...

Adorno and the Kantian Sources of Ideology Critique

Abstract Social theorists in the Marxian tradition often interpret philosophical problems as reflections of social problems. This approach is central to Adorno's interpretation of Kant's epistemology. Adorno claims that the Critique of Pure Reason develops a concept of subjectivi...