Filosofia à sombra de Auschwitz: elementos de uma hermenêutica da (des)esperança no pensamento de Theodor W. Adorno

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Mueller, Enio Ronald
• Orientador(a): Souza, Draiton Gonzaga de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: FILOSOFIA; ADORNO, THEODOR W. - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; HERMENÊUTICA; ESPERANÇA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3440

A study on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno, reiterating its characteristics as philosophy. A philosophy conscious of being exercised under a catastrophic shadow that covers all, including philosophy itself; and that gravitates around an empty center, nominable only by the negation of names: Auschwitz. In these conditions, philosophy sees its task as interpretation. The Adornian concept of philosophy as interpretation (Deutung) is the theme of the First Movement of this thesis. From it emerges the Second Movement, the relation between the concept of interpretation and the discussion on hermeneutics in contemporary philosophy. Adorno´s thought is seen as contributing to this discussion by its emphasis on the base body gestures that lead to and that sustain the effort of interpretation. In it, the most basic gesture is that of hope(lessness). The Third Movement clarifies the contours of this hope(lessness) in the light of Adorno´s dialogue with Ernst Bloch´s philosophy of hope. The result of this dialogue is a deconstruction of an ontology of hope in favour of a hermeneutic of hope(lessness).Implications of this hermeneutic(s) are then unfolded in the Fourth and Fifth Movements, in mirror form. First it is seen from the side of the hopelessness of hope, through analysis of the perspective of radical negativity that pervades Adorno´s thought. After that, the thesis concentrates on hope amids hopelessness, examining the issue of positivity in this thought and concluding with a discussion on the proper relation between negativity and positivity, hopelessness and hope. In Adorno, it is a mirror relation, from a perspective of simultaneity. The (impossible) task of philosophy is “to look in the eyes of completed negativity”, in hope on its transformation into an inverted script of its contrary, positivity, the hope of which must not be nominated nor imaged.