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Negative Dialectics (negative + dialectic)

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PHENOMENOLOGY'S NEGATIVE DIALECTIC: ADORNO'S CRITIQUE OF HUSSERL'S EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONALISM

PHILOSOPHICAL FORUM, Issue 1 2009
JARED A. MILLER
First page of article [source]

,Tarrying with the Negative': Bataille and Derrida's Reading of Negation in Hegel's Phenomenology

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2002
Raphael Foshay
Central to Bataille's critique of Hegel is his reading in ,Hegel, Death, and Sacrifice' of ,negation' and of ,lordship and bondage' in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Whereas Hegel invokes negation as inclusive of death, Bataille points out (following his teacher Kojeve) that negation in the dynamic of lordship and bondage must of necessity be representational rather than actual. Derrida, in ,From Restricted to General Economy' sees in Bataille's perspective an undercutting of the overall Hegelian project consonant with his own ongoing deconstruction of Hegelian sublation. I argue that not only does Hegel fail to adequately pursue his own best advice to ,tarry with the negative,' but Bataille and Derrida's critique misconstrues the relation between sublation and dialectic in Hegel's work. I explicate Adorno's ,negative dialectic' by way of alternative both to Hegelian speculative dialectic and to its Bataillean,Derridean deconstruction. [source]

The Influence of Social Critical Theory on Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Suffering for Others

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2001
Elizabeth K. TillarArticle first published online: 16 DEC 200
Edward Schillebeeckx has consolidated the theoretical and practical dimensions of the Christian approach to human suffering in his theological method, specifically his theology of suffering for others. The various elements and sources of his method can be gleaned from his later writings, especially those published during the 1970s and 1980s. Schillebeeckx's theology is anchored in (1) the Thomist-phenomenological approach of Flemish philosopher Dominic De Petter; (2) the historical-experiential theology of Marie-Dominique Chenu; and (3) the social theory of the Frankfurt School. De Petter's perspective on Aquinas integrated a Thomist epistemology with the phenomenological notion that concepts cannot ultimately capture the reality of human experience. From Chenu, Schillebeeckx acquired his commitment to both solid historical research and engagement with socio-political problems facing church and world. The problem of suffering, which constitutes an essential dimension of Schillebeeckx's theological ethics with its dual emphasis on theory and praxis, raises the question of human responsibility in the face of unjust and needless suffering. His theoretical-practical approach to the alleviation of human suffering evolved within the framework of social critical theory, specifically: (a) Schillebeeckx's theological integration of Theodor Adorno's negative dialectics into his own method of correlation, which promotes various forms of critical resistance to socio-political injustice rather than a single program; and (b) the unification of theory and praxis, a priority of Jürgen Habermas's ,new' critical theory that Schillebeeckx endorses. Both principles of critical theory , negative dialectics and the union of theory and praxis , inform Schillebeeckx's eschatological orientation and his conception of liturgy as a form of social ethics. [source]