Times of unreasons’s many unhappy returns

Leslie, Esther (2024) Times of unreasons’s many unhappy returns. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 33 (67), ISSN 2000-1452.

Abstract

Numerous treatises have been written on how reason is the core concept of philosophy, at least of Western philosophy from the Enlightenment onwards. What that Enlightenment is may be disputed. Adorno, for one, uses the term to “describe the general trend of Western demythologization that may be said to have begun in Greek philosophy with the fragments of Xenophanes that have come down to us.” This disenchantment comes through in Kant’s efforts to “translate the forms inherent in reason into absolutes without reference to anything that is not identical with or inherent in them.” This qual- ifies “Kant’s supreme critical intention” as “in tune with that of the Enlightenment.” In one way or another, reason installs itself, is installed and endeav- ours to explain the world and people. Adorno speaks of a Cartesian ambition, which would wish to pin down items of knowledge’ and identify them like things, “photographable.”

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