Marxism and Totality

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• In a talk he presented to the Frankfurt Kant Society in 1932, enti tled “The Idea of Natural History,”72 he called into question the privileg ing of either nature over history or history over nature as an ontological first principle. Although he considered Hegel’s concept of “second na ture,” which Lukács developed in The Theory o f the Novel, a useful way to conceive the pseudo-naturalism of human relations under capitalism, he nonetheless rejected the belief that subjective human praxis could com pletely denaturalize the social world. The assumption of an “absolute his- toricism,” to use Gramsci’s phrase that Adorno could not have yet known, was as mythicizing as the naturalization of human relations favored in certain right-wing circles. In the spirit of Benjamin’s early work, Adorno in... (查看原文)

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