Moral Philosophy at Crossroads: Use and Abuse of Nietzsche in Dialectic of Enlightenment
0
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
Theodor Adorno in his lecture on moral philosophy in 1963 declared the state of moral philosophy at present as practically bankrupt. About two decades before that, in Dialectic of Enlightenment, which he co-wrote with Max Horkheimer, morality itself is nullified before the all-out, self-critical, destructive force of the Enlightenment reason. This paper examines Adorno's reading of Nietzsche in light of his prognosis of the impotence of moral philosophy. In the 1963 lecture on moral philosophy, Adorno presents Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a recent example of moral philosophy's failure. In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Nietzsche is grouped together with Kant and Sade — "dark writers of the bourgeoisie" — and presented to have led, under the banner of scientific rationality, the Enlightenment's demolition of morality and moral philosophy. This paper suggests Adorno's view on the impossibility of moral philosophy has to do with his narrow, tendentious reading of Nietzsche. Gaston Bachelard's reading of Nietzsche is discussed, as one way of reading him differently. Bachelard reads Nietzsche as an innovative moral philosopher, who reconceived moral philosophy in uniquely naturalistic terms. A Nietzscheanly recast, naturalistic moral philosophy is a road not taken for moral philosophy in Adorno's thought.
Abstract
Theodor Adorno in his lecture on moral philosophy in 1963 declared the state of moral philosophy at present as practically bankrupt. About two decades before that, in Dialectic of Enlightenment, which he co-wrote with Max Horkheimer, morality itself is nullified before the all-out, self-critical, destructive force of the Enlightenment reason. This paper examines Adorno's reading of Nietzsche in light of his prognosis of the impotence of moral philosophy. In the 1963 lecture on moral philosophy, Adorno presents Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a recent example of moral philosophy's failure. In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Nietzsche is grouped together with Kant and Sade — "dark writers of the bourgeoisie" — and presented to have led, under the banner of scientific rationality, the Enlightenment's demolition of morality and moral philosophy. This paper suggests Adorno's view on the impossibility of moral philosophy has to do with his narrow, tendentious reading of Nietzsche. Gaston Bachelard's reading of Nietzsche is discussed, as one way of reading him differently. Bachelard reads Nietzsche as an innovative moral philosopher, who reconceived moral philosophy in uniquely naturalistic terms. A Nietzscheanly recast, naturalistic moral philosophy is a road not taken for moral philosophy in Adorno's thought.
참고문헌 (20)
- Adorno, T., "Aesthetic Theory" (1997), Minnesota UP
- Adorno, T., "History and Freedom" (2006), Polity
- Adorno, T., "Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life" (1974), Verso
- Adorno, T., "Problems of Moral Philosophy" (2001), Stanford UP
- Adorno, T., "Dialectic of Enlightenment:Philosophical Fragments" (2002), Stanford UP
- Bachelard, G., "Air and Dreams" (1988), Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
- Hullot-Kentor, R., "Things Beyond Resemblance" (2006), Columbia UP
- Nietzsche, F., "Beyond Good and Evil" (2002), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "Daybreak" (1997), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of Idols and Other Writings" (2003), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo" (1967), Vintage
- Nietzsche, F., "The Gay Science" (2001), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "Human, All Too Human" (1996), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of Idols and Other Writings" (2003), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche" (1969), Hackett
- Nietzsche, F., "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (2006), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "Untimely Meditations" (1997), Cambridge UP
- Nietzsche, F., "The Will to Power" (1968), Vintage Books
- Schacht, R., "Making Sense of Nietzsche" (1995), Illinois UP
- Williams, B., "The Sense of the Past" (2006), Princeton UP