物化、异化及其观念反抗——阿多诺《否定的辩证法》解读

Reification, Alienation and Idea Rebelling ——Comments on Adorno's Dialectics of Negation

Since young Lukacs, the problem of reification and alienation has been the theoretical focus of Western Marxism. In Negative Dialectics, Adorno was also interested in the critical logic of reification and alienation, after interpreting the main principles and key conceptions of “negative dialectics”, but his theory is complex and fine. He found that the origin of anti-reification is idealism, after questioning the cause of empiricist idealism in the ideal history. This is the core promise of critical theory since Marx. Certainly, Adorno opposed to the reification of capitalism, because that is the real base of the logic of identity which negative dialectics is against. But unexpectedly he opposed to the logic of alienation of humanism, which traditional Western Marxist reconfirmed.

Since young Lukacs, the problem of reification and alienation has been the theoretical focus of Western Marxism. In Negative Dialectics, Adorno was also interested in the critical logic of reification and alienation, after interpreting the main principles and key conceptions of “negative dialectics”, but his theory is complex and fine. He found that the origin of anti-reification is idealism, after questioning the cause of empiricist idealism in the ideal history. This is the core promise of critical th...