Negativity of Historical Knowledge: Relative Whims of Power

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Abstract

This study explores negativity of human and historical knowledge through content, concept, and in-depth analyses of the influential works by Horkheimer and Adorno. It first examines relativity in human nature and in the temporal-spatial continuum, then investigates how antithetical frameworks illustrate negativity in the aforementioned scholars’ works. Focused on the idea of unity directed toward the negativity in the notions of the good and freedom, these analyses argue for a paradoxical and critical historical knowledge of negativity, while allows to confront contradiction while illuminating possible ways of human existence in the relative existential and contextual continuums.

Author

• AnNa Choi, Educator (Freelancer)