Adornian dialectic between Körper and Leib

Abstract

In this paper, we are reflecting about the concept of body present in some parts of Dialectics of Enlightment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno and Negative Dialectics by Adorno. The question belongs to our doctor degree research, where working about the concept of body in Adorno’s Philosophy. Part of the core of the research focuses on the variations between the words Körper and Leib used by the philosopher of Frankfurt and the possible consequences in the text, for the dialectic between culture and nature or spirit and nature. We will also discuss some occurrences of the Marxian and Freudian readings in Adorno’s philosophy for the subject in question.