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The paper analyzes Adorno's critique of Kantian spontaneity and its impact on subjectivity and ethics.

April 28, 2026Open PhilosophyOpen Access

Dualities of Spontaneity: Adorno’s Rethinking of a Kantian Concept

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Examines Adorno’s reinterpretation of Kantian spontaneity, revealing implications for ethics and metaphysical thought.

The paper analyzes Adorno's critique of Kantian spontaneity and its impact on subjectivity and ethics.
Examined Kant's notions of spontaneity in the Critique of Pure Reason.
Analyzed Adorno’s critique of idealism and materialist doctrine.
Explored implications of Adorno's reinterpretation for ethics and metaphysical thought.
Identified two distinct senses of spontaneity in Kant: relative and absolute.
Showed how Adorno uses relative spontaneity to address the subject-object relation.
Demonstrated the relevance of Adorno’s ideas for developing an ethics post-Auschwitz.

Joseph Bermas-Dawes (2026) studied this question.

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