Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical by Oshrat C. Silberbusch

Author:Oshrat C. Silberbusch
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319956275
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

That the difference was for Adorno indeed a difference ums Ganze (one that changes everything) is manifest in his attitude to violence. In the interview with Der Spiegel, he affirmed that he had “the strongest reservations against any use of violence” and could “imagine a meaningful, transformative praxis only as non-violent praxis.”143 When the interviewer prodded: “Even under a fascist dictatorship?”, Adorno responded without hesitation: “To real fascism, one can only react with violence.”144 Similarly, while he criticized the students’ actions as “futile” in the face of the “true impossibility of decisive impact”, he admired the actions of those who violently resisted the Nazi regime—independently of the action’s real impact, of whether or not “the martyrdom was objectively wrong”:Possible and admirable was the attitude on the outskirts of utmost horror that was taken on by the conspirators of the 20th of July [1944, the failed attempt at Hitler’s life], who preferred to risk their own agonizing demise rather than to stay passive. (…) One cannot be scared enough of the world as it is. If somebody decides to sacrifice not only his intellect, but himself, then nobody is allowed to prevent him, despite the fact that some martyrdom is objectively wrong.145

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