ABSTRACT This article articulates the idea of a disclosing critique of society. It starts from the assumption that the curiously organicistic undertones of Adorno’s negative social ontology is part and parcel of a disclosing gesture in his social criticism. It then traces Adorno’s debate with social organicists to the point where the critical theorist’s own concept of society emerges with a claim to be critical in itself. It is argued that this critical claim is enforced by a disclosing gesture. To articulate what is at stake in this gesture of critical disclosure a parallel is drawn, and contrast made, to Emerson’s conception of disclosure as “drawing a circle around a circle”. The relationship between Adorno’s and Emerson’s conceptions of critical disclosure is complex. However, their juxtaposition allows for a distinction between two directions of critical disclosure. It will be argued that disclosing critique of society can be understood as an exemplary dissociation from alienated society by means of a creative association of empirical knowledge, poetic description and philosophical speculation by a critic standing, as it were, with one foot inside and the other outside our form of life.

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负面有机主义：阿多诺，爱默生和公开社会批判的思想

摘要本文阐述了公开社会批判的思想。它始于这样一个假设，即阿多诺否定性社会本体论的奇怪有机主义底蕴是其社会批评中公开姿态的一部分。然后，它追溯到阿多诺与社会有机主义者的辩论，直至批判理论家自己的社会观念出现，并声称自己具有批判性。有人认为，这一批评主张是通过公开手势来执行的。为了阐明关键公开手势的关键之处，与艾默生的公开概念“围绕一个圆圈画一个圆圈”进行了对比，并进行了对比。阿多诺和爱默生的批判性披露概念之间的关系很复杂。然而，它们的并置允许在关键披露的两个方向之间进行区分。可以说，通过批评家的经验知识，诗意描述和哲学思辨的创造性结合，揭示社会批判可以理解为与疏远社会的典型分离，这是因为批评家站在那里，一只脚在里面，另一只脚在里面在我们的生活形式之外。