Book, Giving Body to the Impossible Meaning of Dialectic from Adorno[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. In Embodying the Impossible, Vladimir Safatle begins with a reflection on the meaning of the last figure of dialectic that philosophical thought knew, namely, Theodor Adorno's negative dialectic. He refuses the deceptive interpretations of negative dialectics, so present today, in order to explore its dynamics of productivity and the modifications it produces in concepts such as: totality, materialism, subject, difference and infinity. This leads Safatle to propose a structural articulation between negative dialectics and those of a Hegelian and Marxist matrix. This articulation seeks to understand the deeper meaning of the relationships between dialectical configurations and specific historical determinations. It is also a matter of asking what the re-updating of the dialectic proposed by Adorno owes to Freudian psychoanalysis and the incessant confrontation with Martin Heidegger's phenomenology. In the end, Embodying the Impossible uses the balance of such reflections to rethink the refusal of dialectics that animates contemporary French philosophy, especially through Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, as well as to resume the use that dialectics, as critical experience, he met in Brazil, especially thanks to Paulo Arantes.