Article ID: CBB920181224

Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Economic Objectivity (2016)

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This article explores Adorno’s negative dialectics as a critical social theory of economic objectivity. It rejects the conventional view that Adorno does not offer a critique of the economic forms of capitalist society. The article holds that negative dialectics is a dialectics of the social world in the form of the economic object, one that is governed by the movement of economic quantities, that is, real economic abstractions. Negative dialectics refuses to accept the constituted economic categories as categories of economic nature. Instead, the article argues, it amounts to a conceptualized social praxis [begriffene Praxis] of the capitalistically constituted social relations, which manifest themselves in the form of seemingly independent economic categories. Economic nature is a socially constituted nature, which entails the class antagonism in its concept. The article concludes that for negative dialectics the explanation of real economic abstractions lies in the understanding of the class-divided nature of human practice.

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Authors & Contributors
Berenson, Edward
Dominique Meeùs
Manfred Gangl
Martin Schneider
Arnold, Alexander Lee
Geroulanos, Stefanos
Concepts
Political economy
Economics
Science and society
Sociology
Dialectics
Journalism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Modern
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Atlantic world
Atlantic Ocean
London (England)
Institutions
Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt am Main
American Sociological Association
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