Jersey Flight: NEGATIVE DIALECTICS IN A NUTSHELL

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

NEGATIVE DIALECTICS IN A NUTSHELL

"What appears as the positive is essentially the negative, i.e. the thing that is to be criticized." Adorno, Lectures on Negative Dialectics, pg.18 (Polity Press: 2008)

I contend that we have not even entered the realm of thought until we have the courage (and ability) to probe beyond the giddy atmosphere which so mindlessly sustains us. But this is not a truth that the world is ready to hear.

This act of criticism (which constitutes a form of intellectual integrity) is what separates a thinker from a conformist.

"The concept of positivity in itself, in abstracto, has become part and parcel of the ideology today. ... Critique has started to become suspect, regardless of its content." Ibid. pg.20

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About Me:

Jersey Flight can be considered as a sort of left-wing version of Nietzsche. He is an iconoclast against all forms of cultural superstition, including elitism and academia. His intellectual interests include, defining and expanding the psychological qualities that account for advanced thinking, as well as collaborating a method for its culturation. He has repeatedly challenged intellectuals to transcend theory and fulfill their social responsibility to engage culture through polemics. His writing style is consciously concise; an anti-scholastic, he tries to communicate complex ideas in simple prose. He has written multiple volumes of philosophy that have not yet been released to the public. He is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research.