FELIPE RIBEIRO

The object of the research is the relation between interpretation and natural history in Adorno. In the first place, it seeks to reconstruct the concept of natural history, revealing its different layers. Such an objective is realized through a confrontation with what Adorno considers to be "affirmative" constructions of history, that being the case of Hegel and Marx, for example. Once history as progress through immanent contradictions, from where emancipation should result as a final product, is seen as a problem, the research aims to show how, for Adorno, hope has been displaced to what is not integrated in the historical development. We try to expose how the notion of transitoriness [Vergängnis] relates to such displacement, assuming a normative role. If the concept of transitoriness provides the "canon of historical-philosophical interpretation", the research then seeks to develop the connection between the displacement of hope and the concept of interpretation. Accordingly, interpretation will aim at opening the experiences situated in history's "blind spots", in what was not integrated by the big trends.