Subjectivity and Immanence: Kant's Reception in Adorno's "Negative Dialectics"

Subjectivity and Immanence: Kant's Reception in Adorno's "Negative Dialectics" - Guram Rekhviashvili Abstract The aim of this Master's thesis is to elaborate Kant's central position in Adorno's late dialectical project around the subject principle of the justification of objectivity and the thing-in-itself problem and, accordingly, to clearly situate Kant's role in the book Negative Dialectics. Rather than following the constellation of receptions in the models of the book that explicitly refer to Kant's themes (the models: freedom and metaphysics), my project aims to question Adorno's methodology of conceptualisation, which identifies the constellation processes as relating to the motifs of the Critique of Pure Reason. This leads to two central conclusions: The subjectivity of constellations as a communicative relational logic of concepts and non-conceptual disputes is methodologically grounded by the Kantian motifs of the concept of critique as hermeneutically valid, i.e. the concrete results and organisations of constellations are based in their developmental dynamics on the negative review process of representation. In other words, for Adorno, the conceptual principle of representation in the dialectical tradition is thoroughly shaped by Kant's questions of subjectivity. Secondly, the main task of the..