Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth by Hulatt Owen;

Author:Hulatt, Owen;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI001000, Philosophy/Aesthetics, ART009000, ART009000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

The how of expression should rescue, in precision, what the refusal to outline sacrifices, without, however, betraying the intended matter to the arbitrariness of previously decreed significations…. In the essay, concepts do not build a continuum of operations, thought does not advance in a single direction, rather the aspects of the argument interweave as in a carpet. The fruitfulness of the thoughts depends on the density of this texture. 13

Adorno terms the required rhetorical form “texture.” The German term here translated as “texture” is Gewebe, which is associated with textiles, and is also capable of being translated as “tissue” or “weave.” As these connotations make clear, the philosophical “texture” that Adorno is here identifying as desirable is a multithreaded, multidirectional account in which various strands “interweave,” as he puts it. Dialectical philosophy, for Adorno, can only terminate in this “texture,” in which diverse epistemological categories and perspectives are exhaustively interrelated and interwoven, in order to demonstrate the incapability of any single form of conceptual discourse exhaustively describing its object. Crucially, this rhetorical texture is a condition of the “fruitfulness of the thoughts” that it expresses. Comprehension of the object is not merely a “deductive or inductive course,”14 but is rather achieved in the “density of [the] texture.”15 Following from this claim about the optimal form of a philosophical argument, Adorno is here signifying his rejection of deductive and inductive standards of truth, and his belief in the fusion of standards of truth with standards of rhetorical achievement. Later in the same piece, Adorno cements this idea that philosophical content and rhetorical form have become intermixed in his work:

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