阿多諾的非同一性思維與現代藝術

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the relationship between Adorno's thought of non-identity and modem art. The introduction describes the analytical approach of this paper. The second section analyzes the development of the thought of non-identity in The Dialectics of the reason, Minima Moralia, Negative Dialects, and Aesthetic Theory. The third section locates the historical stand of the thought of non-identity, and searches the origins and development of European thoughts from identity to non-identity. The forth section looks into the integration of Adorno's thought of non-identity and modern art. Issues such as how Adorno argued reification, regression, desesthetisation, and culpability, and their relations with the obscure language in Aesthetic Theory are discussed in this section. The fifth section investigates the appearance of Adorno's non-identity, so to identify the operational aspects of "new subject" and "negativity". These are, in fact, the spirit of non-identity language. The sixth section inducts the operational conditions of receptive vision and objective vision from the methods that Aesthetic Theory approaches modem art. These conditions include the two key arguments in the dialectics of expansion: "Present" and "Admitting Perception". The conclusion of the paper points out that the non-identity language that Adorno used to connect his thought with modem art is based on a creative argument: even the most controversial vision belongs to the free form of an alternative representation of subject.