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Title: | The Dialectic of the Concept and its Nonidentical Other: An Historical Exegesis from Heraclitus to Adorno | Contributor(s): | Hearfield, Colin Wesley (author) | Conferred Date: | 1994 | Copyright Date: | 1993 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18660 | Abstract: | While philosophy has retreated in large part to a specialist science of cognitive modalities, and is organised on this basis into formal codes of ethical conduct for the professional and business classes, critical reflection upon the concept's claim to self-sufficient truth and its ideological role in society has all but evaporated. Otherwise distracted by still prevalent concerns with transcendent meaning and epistemological methods based on mathematical principles of noncontradiction, the student of philosophy remains diverted from the question of the concept's own determination by the nonconceptual other to which it gives expressive form. This question raises a seemingly unresolvable dilemma, since it is only through the concept that such determination may be expressed. For this very reason such a problematic and the logic to which it gives rise has been virtually ignored. The absolute constituting form of the concept has been either implicitly or explicitly upheld throughout the history of philosophy. As a result the privileged concept from which all others are deduced, invariantly discloses its own immanent contradiction; a contradiction which is then covered over by the claim to indubitable certainty, to the absolute truth inherent in that concept's transcendental status. | Publication Type: | Thesis Masters Research | Rights Statement: | Copyright 1993 - Colin Wesley Hearfield | HERDC Category Description: | T1 Thesis - Masters Degree by Research |
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