From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 03:46:29 EDT
At 10:40 AM +0200 5/12/05, Hanno Pahl wrote: > Of course this refers to Sohn-Rethels attempt to connect the axioms >of Kant with those real abstractions taking place in the sphere of >circulation... While Adorno still shared Sohn-Rethels intentions and >goals I think he became more sceptical about Sohn-Rethels somewhat >causal explanation of the linkage between forms of thought and forms >of real abstraction. > Gideon Freudenthal has argued that the strong program in social epistemology which grew out of Sohn Rethel's early attempts to ground the basic concepts of modern science in the abstractions which are created in and through social exchange relations explains only very general characteristics of scientific theories, in relation to which any specific theory is indifferent; moreover, the program fails to explain the possibility of acquiring objective knowledge. It is also surprising to me how little discussion there is of Adorno's concern with social consequences of an ethics based on the kind of abstractions and equivalences which grow out of commodity exchange. Yours, Rakesh
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