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well he thinks he’s doing adorno journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

have to go hungry anymore or be homeless. Still, millions live in misery, which creates a strong apologetic necessity to justify suffering that could be prevented. Following my analysis, this justification will not only be sustained by false claims about the unchangeability of this world and a curtailment of our imaginative powers, but also with the moralistic
instrumentalisation of moral ideas. To criticise the latter, moral convictions are essential. Only on the basis of a moral anti-moralism can we detect how ideological distortions turn ideas of the good and just into a 'cover of evil' (Adorno, 2000 [1963]:
171; trans. amended). A dialectical critique of the 'unreason of the dominant reason' (Adorno, 1998 [1962]: 151) has always been a central ambition of the ideology critique of the Frankfurt School, and it is being neglected by contemporary realists who draw on this tradition (see Forst, 2023; Honneth,

July 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM