Second Precarity : Adorno and the Dialectics of Self-preservation

Abstract

The study systematically analyzes and interprets Adorno's concept of self-preservation and concentrates on its historical dialecitcs. Thanks to the concept of self-preservation, the study explains Adorno's conception of instrumental reason as reason in the serice of the self-preseration principle.

Keywords

• Adorno
• Negative dialectics
• Self-preservation
• Instrumental reason
• History