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He argues that Heidegger is the main representative of an ontological philosophy. Adorno in these lectures opposes dialectical philosophy to ontology (114) and when he speaks of ontology he means Heidegger’s philosophy. Adorno criticises that for Heidegger, being dominates the subject. As a consequence, this ‘extreme objectivism that more or less neutralises the subject’ (200) results in an archaic (239) and mythological (246) philosophy that has ‘sympathy with barbarism’ (240). Heidegger’s philosophy is for Adorno undialectical. He argues that being ‘becomes for Heidegger an undialectical essence’ (315). Adorno says that dialectical philosophy that stresses nonidentity is not an alternative ontology, but the latter’s anti-pole (325). But he also stresses that there is not a strict choice between ontology or dialectical philosophy (10) and that dialectical philosophy is the ‘critical self-reflection of ontology’ (12–13) and the ‘dialectic is in itself mediated through ontology (13). In Negative Dialectics, Adorno (2004) formulates the same critique of Heidegger’s ontology. He argues that ‘dialectics is the ontology of the wrong state of things’ (Adorno 2004, 11).\n\nGiven that ontology is a theory of being, Adorno’s concern is that formulating an ontology automatically posits being as static and is prone to justifying the bad reality that exists today. So his concern is that ontology neglects reality’s dynamic and historical character. In a dialectical ontology, any being is however always tied to its negative other that contradicts it, by which the foundations of change are automatically given. The One is always related to the Other, Being to Nothingness, and the unity of both constitutes becoming. So there can be no being without becoming. Being is only because it becomes. Becoming is being in dialectical motion. Adorno hints at this relation of ontology and dialectic, but unlike Lukács does not speak of a dialectical ontology. Adorno was interested in a dialectical critical theory of society. Lukács called such a theory in his final work a ‘dialectical ontology of social being’. We do not know if Adorno would have agreed on such a title, but Lukács and Adorno certainly both share the interest in how to combine the critical theory of society and dialectical philosophy.\n\n2.1.3. Lukács Scholarship: The Unfortunate Neglect of the Ontology of Social Being\n\nThe Ontology of Social Being is in contrast to History and Class Consciousness a critical theory of society and capitalism and is therefore much more concerned with the relationship between work and culture, as well as that between labour and ideology. It also gives attention to communication and language, which makes it particularly interesting for reflections from a media and communications perspective. In the reception of Lukács’ works, there has been a very strong focus on History and Class Consciousness, overlooking that he also wrote other important works, such as the Ontology of Social Being. This also becomes evident in more recent publications on Lukács.\n\nGeorg Lukács as a Communications Scholar\n\n49","previous_page":48,"next_page":50}