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Where Nietzsche saw domination as an essential feature of human society, Adorno argued that domination was contingent and potentially capable of being overcome. Obviously, [letting go of this particular aspiration would be intellectually cataclysmic to the emancipatory aims of critical theory]. Adorno uses Nietzsche in an attempt to bolster, not undermine, critical theory. https://www.iep.utm.edu/adorno/Would you please explain the bracketed part? How come is it cataclysmic to the emancipatory aims?
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Atatürk wrote:Where Nietzsche saw domination as an essential feature of human society, Adorno argued that domination was contingent and potentially capable of being overcome. Obviously, [letting go of this particular aspiration would be intellectually cataclysmic to the emancipatory aims of critical theory]. Adorno uses Nietzsche in an attempt to bolster, not undermine, critical theory. https://www.iep.utm.edu/adorno/Would you please explain the bracketed part? How come is it cataclysmic to the emancipatory aims? As I read it, Nietzsche said domination was an essential feature of society, but Adorno felt that domination could be overcome through conscious effort, which would result in freedom from such domination.
Therefore, such freedom could not occur if one didn't believe domination could be overcome. So "oviously", letting go of the idea you can overcome domination, would destroy the idea of achieving freedom.
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FounDit is Correct
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For what it's worth, I remember the saying, "Nietzsche is pietzsche but Sartre is smartre".
The key to this saying is that the philosopher's name ("nee-chuh" in German) is often pronounced "Nee-chee" in English, so that "pietzsche" would be pronounced "peachy" (an informal word for "fine, very satisfactory"). The French existentialist's name is often pronounced just /sart/ in English, so that "smartre" would be pronounced /smart/. But sometimes the -re in his name is pronounced in English (more or less /sar-tr/) so "smartre" would be /smarter/.
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