caa a22 4500 463165446 CHVBK 20180406164759.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11007-006-9016-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11007-006-9016-3 Smith Nick Department of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA aut Adorno vs. Levinas: Evaluating points of contention [Elektronische Daten] [Nick Smith] Although Adorno and Levinas share many arguments, I attempt to sharpen and evaluate their disagreements. Both held extreme and seemingly opposite views of art, with Adorno arguing that art presents modernity's highest order of truth and Levinas denouncing it as shameful idolatry. Considering this striking difference brings to light fundamental substantive and methodological incompatibilities between them. Levinas' assertion of the transcendence of the face should be understood as the most telling point of departure between his and Adorno's critiques of instrumental reason. I attempt to explain why Levinas believed this move was justifiable and how Adorno would understand Levinas' notion of illeity as a cultural byproduct and a form of dogmatism. Adorno's historical and sociological account of the disenchantment of the world and the destruction of aura within a culture fully administered by scientific rationality and economic reductionism sharply contrasts to Levinas' transcendental phenomenology, and I argue that Adorno's thoroughgoing refusal to constrain dialectical reflection is ultimately more compelling. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006 Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/3(2007-07-01), 275-306 1387-2842 40:3<275 2007 40 11007 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9016-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9016-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smith Nick Department of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/3(2007-07-01), 275-306 1387-2842 40:3<275 2007 40 11007 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer