2017 - Franco Angeli
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Self-Preservation and Exchange : Two Ways of Historicizing Kant's Concept of Synthesis and their Epistemological Implications
617-628 p.
- This article discusses two critical attempts to historicize Kant's concept of synthesis: Alfred Sohn-Rethel's theory that the basis of cognitive synthesis is the social synthesis through commodity exchange and Theodor W. Adorno's considerations on the role of synthesis in the domination of nature. As is pointed out in the first section, Sohn-Rethel's approach has certain relativist implications whereas Adorno's is, to some extent, inevitably realist. In section 2 the author first analyzes Adorno's agreement with Sohn-Rethel's social synthesis and then demonstrates how the opposing epistemological implications are reconciled. In the final section the resulting continuity between self-preservation and exchange is found to be epistemologically promising although it carries the danger of naturalizing capitalism. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
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In this issue
- History of failed synthesis
- The Unity of Science and the Search for a Unity of Understanding in the Modern Era.
- The Magic Mountain
- Thomas Reid on Consciousness and the Constitution of the Mental
- There's no Success like Failure : on the early Reception of Kant's most famous Synthesis
- Tycho's System and the Decline of the Traditional Cosmos
- Self-Preservation and Exchange : Two Ways of Historicizing Kant's Concept of Synthesis and their Epistemological Implications
- Systematic Thought and the Early French Enlightenment
- Philosophies cartésiennes à l'usage des étrangers : les traductions latines du Traité de physique de Rohault et de la Recherche de la vérité de Malebranche
- Genovesi e la Metafisica
- Ludwig Feuerbach, L'uomo è ciò che mangia
- Il dominio di una tradizione : separazione dei saperi nei programmi e nella prassi didattica italiana
- L'attualità dei dialoghi sull'Idiota di Nicola Cusano
- Heidegger, lector de la tradición
- Recensioni
- Schede
- Indice dell'annata 2017
