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Argument Vorb, Togelr St 6, ©1000 Bein Wet) 6 |ARGUMENTVERLAG BERLIN INTRODUCTION TO ADORNO’S “IDEA OF NATURAL-HISTORY” by Bob Hullot-Kentor ising acrid ete reseed the "de of Natura History” on Joy 15, 1932, at ctf the Franklur caper ofthe Kan Sociee:! The scien’ yeatiy eeu pulsed ini journal Kem Se, san imporant acumen That aaaae rete ine Pel Till, who supers Adorno's inaugural senor MerLtnthe loeal dire Alongwitha vance of details the socks uses wedicenopeasan"Horkheires, Vibtora Alle 17.” Ayearlaertherginers, aise Pronkfart is lank except under the heading for local decors re aan theo kes inno prove saline wih dis ‘retin. Direion vo be csen igi Hier of Sle “Theat teat Adonsearlyesaycan be understood from he perspective of hisimaure work whichivemphatcalleaitil Hislastwrkings, pantealary igus and the Aestte iay, ate writen atthe Lint of German SIRI Aroelesate delve” the reference af pronouns is consent ob- wenn sceasionieducibly ambiguous prepositional objects are asarule {Ups the subject af clause may be deleted and reappear inthe form of incase ihe reflexive oman cefered ntl dhe end of the ete nye pe sates ‘an, “ape ei an ae ae en tap eae Abs coneemr 19794 4 ty certs gh rt rr 18 pO cr me Dena cack usu end io Toa hte cnn od SADA Whalen pe ernthe neitng wit may appear, strangely, athe beginning ofthe seaences foreign catia, and achat terms are costandy used: adverbs ate posi tioned! ungraramatially and accordingly accemed Alo these echnigoes ‘beak the normal alee sentence and vequite that be re-read and reflec ted upon” In agreement with Benjamin's dictum that “argumentation is Iruieny” the entire stactare of asumption, development proof and com ‘sion hasbeen discarded foradialetc ofthc objecticlf Any subjctvels imposed order, Adorno wrote, ia mah for chaos. This critique extends to the usual apparatys of tansiions, All of the variations on plasce sch row we ea sce” become indicators ofa loss uf de sate at hare They rarely occurin Adorno’ writings thevesuh isthat the progeesion of thought ‘nally appears fragmented and abrupe? Ia the "ide of Naturalists. this syle had nor been mastered. The aici appears under is regres spec cha an arch igi auf hh ol aa be ound in foto's personal manncr eich Bloch once sumed up a his" forma The orgie ofthis froren posture fear. Desig tp Tac poare eas secon nen Adc andlterpieandmakes ary ering mein recog orendes afhismature works But the internal dynamicof this posturealsexpainthe Sepec of thir ey that wil be feast fat. May wil be ane phase cling for an “ontlogcalre-orenation a histor” or promoting * loadin” Thee nes ms pper xan cn prong with that sane epg who eae ter daa uae in he Jogo Jeary Tocompare tice wo werls om apponse ended Adora cee injun one regard: where thecal ogni js quoted, copies hapouic ‘ican end ebm fig heme pra dr theatidude of seltpeeeration aypirigo be more han hat" These 0 ‘wate seach 98, pp. ES pe memaceccaci ‘Neri shapore ao taaagt ary oc farce rence dene en "sf Abt ead Kn ean ir Wl Eamon, 17, xrmOpUCTION 10.4D08NO 98 positions wis Heidegger are nt, however, as distinct as dhe at ise [ppear iaton and rejection are more dan opposites While Adorno had ipen dicey involved the neo-ontologial mevementin thermiewenten, head fly separated himself from iby thetime thathe presented hislece fn natural hitory. That he neventiless ended up on this oceason éresed paral in Heideggerian uniform nexplained toa degree by Leo Strauss who {tacit the coos pilosophy inthe carly 1980s:"Onetas ogo back te Hegel find snoxherprofenor ef pilosophy who alfeced ina compar “ble manner the though of Germany” is darination grew amos con- Tinuously inextentandin intensity. Eventually sate was reached which theouide inlined desenbeas paralysis ofthe critical faculties: philoso Phin now sens yohave bee ansformed into Fisting wh reverence the nce ta of Heidegger ‘Heidegger’ pilesophy wan thefora of mie ertoraken bythe disaster ofthe 30s In ellen of Naural Histor,” where mt and nature ate sy ‘onsmours Adorno ores that neo-ontlogy is nothing “other than what 1 tneanby nature isa fall structure of existential invariable, Justasall ‘f Adorno's ings sgge wih mth stage e analyzed wih ret oncisonin hissy of he Ody inthe ile Enlighten, isnot pring find Ulhses's acts employed in Adorno's development. The tlalete of enlighionment, the curve of Ulsseus voyage, she production Ur second natal immanence, The self develops by becoming ike whatit tases at the sane sme tha disolves sat os object. Intron, Uses becomes Lie obey” a model of Folyphemosuniflereniat Cihitonie nature. Uses develops this wnconscous self-sacrifice, that wins Fim favored position with he Cyclops as conscious ruse, He takes Pye [Phen side agen hl! ad les hia wine co beer enjoy a saugter tha would include Ulsseshinell"Take Cyclops and drink, Wine gocswell vith human flesh." Ulyees exploits hin se sacrfiialegeston co ind the “Gelapsan escape By makinghinsl ie Pelypemos he gains power over Fim, desvons frac nature, and ifleretates hil Yethisdiferenatonis Spouryphal. Ulsses emerges fom the stogge a selena, invariable, force af atute the form of sell preservation second immanence, that toes sel an ist aute, by select, what once feared from Bit ature it deaons parca, The historical voyage Becomes natural ‘ent External mer becomes internal self identcl mies imately the order ofthe mate whieh is ell ruc ofthe selFsactibice of par ticular to universal. ts conscons con of nature the self becomes ‘acy 16 SelF-reprodutin as second nature: Where Adomo mirrors dyer iis inthe ater, ania From lap svick wo draw him into movernents tha he would have otherwise resisted: ‘Adorn wants to uansorm neo-ontology’s reconciling formulation ofthe Jnerwovennest of naune el history to a dilecic that presets theirnual collapse, This 2 conscious maneaver i form, however, pitts AeeperLiketne wooden gestresolthe hyper culated mule ta exalt ‘own ear, dhe ety of Adamo’ esay mitnies menace. The igiiie sel Smeralzed saci, pays for survival by forgeting tha it has renounced pif he process. The nemesisafthe rise ol he dialect of enlightenment ittha the contol gine over the other amounts othe frfeure of tue se font. is understandable then, that Adorno comes closest Following evdegge'steadat the cenvaipoinin the essay where he would presenti self most emphatically 25 himself. eis his point, to be discussed chat gives Insight into aFandannenal probes with de essay. “The “ide of Natral-Hisory” was published only posthumously. There avegood rexons why Adorno right have wields publication, The essay ‘sawkwardly consruted, a points repeitive a oersalmostincopreher "Sblydesukoryt lies on len quotations; machof what sido impor {ance appears and better sai, in works publied sale” Yet the ey Independeruy conaivs several imporaht formulations and Adon was not severally reluctant to publi his early works es more ily that he re {rxined fromm publishing iin the conten of what became alien strug ith Heidegger, becaun of compronising Heidegger clement But iso, {he Hebdeggerian phraseology would not have been decisive. Adorno could have ced out without changing di eas rgaizain jus as he dropped sceral postive references to Heidegger rom hi caay ofthe id semties before allowing thi epublication, Moreover, there ae pints in Adorno's ‘mature works where similar lines can be found." A crucial clement ofthe ‘ema, however, that could ot be excised, a in which a postive read oe Headegger is condensed, isthe tern “natural histor” (Natugehche Pini emily “Natural hiner" both German and Engh. ranalterloe tua tier "the inary of mature According tothe Lain aed Grek see of “hinry ic meane much tha cecasinal, and contsingy continue fo ‘ream in modern Eng the sareon of sm inguiy io are, aig {hing ecard wh ny omporl dentin The Geman et secon inthe ghee centuryas pares nanonalis moverient td ice foreign terminology that dominated cleus language, The new i ey tie ane a i sig ha sail hen atthe: an ri Menuhin term, however, immediately acquired pressing ambiguity asthe result of he “hangingconceprsl nature andbistory, Whenararewasconceivedinscien- ‘le Iteratre a8 hstorcal inthe oder sense, natral history acquited ew eral sense tha couse with casa meaning The wo develop ments. the teminologialand the conceptual coincide mostemphatcaly 8 ants work; he wasat once dhe first to writea cient history of mature a6 proces of unending, infinite creation! and the mostimportant Figure, Per, Rips the ftw promote di Torna ination of he ten’ ambit He ‘proposed thats significance beresricedothe investigation ofnaute’ ssl {velopment frm primitive chaos wo raioal ordee.™ AeA pisos kes notconcemed with maura history ineiher he laa othe Ratan ense- Rather, his iteres in she ver i clea fom chur ne aplainnastheaewol natra-hintorysto comprehend an objects Fatwalieve appears most historical and as historical where appears hove natural -The tea i he dake hat can be exraced from a era “nalysol deters amily the story of natures arure grasped ashit- fovea natal hiscory ithe hire grasped 36 natal “Tis ornal decomposition ofthe term, a pu givesan historia concept riage tn, Whe Adorno recognized this he would hae rejected he {Ga Thea tolmagine that Benji, ho presumably heard the presen: ‘Ghon,would haveentelzed ton just this basie. Thiecricem was const ‘demene of Benjamin's often reformulated works n che eaty wings it Sppeats eg asa eitque lf Roreanti flexion: in she later works ican be ‘and in fs ernique of the ahistorical aepet of Mallarmé’ ceypondacs in Comparison wih those of Baudelaiee. Throughout, this crigue was that of Shit sigaiaton thar thelingitc form ofthe Fall: or lesstheologcal- Iyvthe destruction of experience, What woul have made Adorno’ rect Alona neologsticcharaterefthisterm pally biting isthat it would Ihaveconverged wihisownerquect Heidegger, whose workisbuik outa neclogsns and terns ransormed into neologiis by a sort of pseudo: “mlogy By theme shat Adorn presented the "Idea of Naural Hisory” Icha in fac alteady developed this eiqueof Heidegger’s language in the "These on te Language of Pikeophy” (1930) “Freely posited language ixomo could be feferingo erm ike Das chat aim ogainthe word? ‘epuh by pursuing a literal content (en, eng-there!* — "advances the plnlosoper’s pretention to freedom from the compulsion of histo." [Xtome eepeatediyanayecs he soriness ofthis fre fing conte Ine Lac Eten in parila, Adorno analyzehisasthe Ing tie form of Ulsses regressive excape fom Polyphemes, Ulvses chader nt) Gali Ds fe ation. 15 1 i Tarfanerscpls nan tev rereae e eger decor or aint arpa antenna art eer Leena