Adorno and the dialectic of non-identical love:
Barbarism or humanization
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https://doi.org/10.5216/revufg.v23.77223Abstract
Love in Adorno goes beyond the subjectivist and romantic sense and considers contradictions inherent to the theory of knowledge, constituting a source of ideological social representation, mediated by the relationship between subject and object. To that extent, its contradictions elevate it to a cultural construct permeated by negative dialectics. Therefore, for Adorno, love is a principle of humanist aspiration alongside values such as ethics, hope, gratitude, kindness, solidarity, justice, and democracy. Such values, if demystified, postulate opposition to the apathy, totalitarianism, and horror of Nazism and Fascism; in resistance to the suffering, prejudice, and barbarism recurrent in civilization. However, demystifying ideal and romantic love, as with other values, configures a self-reflexive, non-identical, and formative experience with a view to a conscious, emancipated, and humanist society, which recognizes risks of alienation and inversion of totality to totalitarianism, democracy to pseudo-democracy. Conscious, true. and critical love is transposed into immanent social action. In the light of Adorno, dialectical love presupposes hope for a real just society in political, cultural, and social terms.
Keywords: Adorno. Love. Negative dialéctic. Barbarism. Critical theory
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