Abstract
The concept of «crisis» is usually defined as a «lack», no matter which crisis we mean (economical, moral, social, etc.). This determines the attitude towards a crisis: we wish to return to the previous stage, considered ideal. We believe that the idea that underlies this concept of crisis, that is, the chance of reaching the synthesis of the dialectical process, as Hegel put it, or the end of history, as described by Fukuyama, is dangerous, since it results in the accommodation in what is already known and in the eternal repetition of the same. In this article, we fall back on the thought of Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Jacques Derrida to put forward an alternative concept of crisis which lies emphasis on the opennes rather than the completedness, and on the to-come rather than the present. We consider that the so-called «ideal situation» does not exist and that, instead, we are in a permanent crisis which should be regarded as a positive phenomenon.
Translated title of the contribution | Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Jacques Derrida for an alternative reading of the crisis |
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Original language | Catalan |
Pages (from-to) | 332-344 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Ars Brevis |
Issue number | 16 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |