CARINE GOMES CARDIM LASER

I start from the basic idea that Adorno perceives in the spirit of Kantian moral philosophy that subjects would only cease to be a piece of nature when they reflected on themselves and became aware of themselves as a piece of nature. However, this idea was not realized by Kantian philosophy in its aversion to self-consciousness and its absolute rational model. Considering that this nature, which can be perceived through self-consciousness, is either of the somatic order or of the internal drive nature, we can consider the importance of this concept for Adornian philosophy and its conception of nature and freedom. However, this way of thinking about nature shouldn't simply be an awareness of the drive. I try to show that the only possibility of knowing oneself as a piece of nature is through the negative expression of the drive, which, in the somatic, appears as what cannot be fully aware of, or its non-identical moment.