Mental Twinges

The Totality on the Road to Self-Realization In this lecture Adorno claims that there is a problem with Hegel's philosophical history. He argues that the idea of history as a "self-realizing totality" [a consolation of philosophy]  is irrational because no one benefits from it. It has only survived as long as it has because humanity has survived despite of all the suffering that has been inflicted in the concept's name. The Philosophy of History and Historiography  To "construct" an historical event, we need to know the context, the facts, and how they are connected to each other (39). The process of gathering "the relevant factors" related to "historical events" in order to understand them philosophically both "requires and presupposes historiography [the study of historical texts]" and the process of history-writing to explain them. i.e. in explaining an historical event we rely on historical texts and we create texts fo...

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