Abstrakt
This article forms the attempt to investigate the complex relation between style and philosophical thought in Nietzsche and Adorno, demonstrating how Nietzsche's writing and conception of style had influenced Adorno. The article investigates especially Nietzsche's and Adorno's experiments with the "short form" (from the aphorism to the more complex form of the essay) form an expression of the crisis of the traditional philosophical system, and therefore an attempt to emancipate the philosophical language from the system.
From this point of view, the short form is a experiment with a new form of language; an experiment that coincides with the exploration of a new philosophical path, an attempt to re-elaborate the fragments of the old philosophical systems, thus reorganizing them in new constellations. The search for a new style, that Nietzsche and Adorno undertake, is quintessentially a philosophical search, a theoretical experiment.