In the Fractures of the Concept: Adorno, Husserl, and the Truth of the Non-Identical

By Noah Blake

In the Fractures of the Concept: Adorno, Husserl, and the Truth of the Non-Identical stages one of the most decisive philosophical encounters of the twentieth century. With exemplary clarity and scholarly rigor, Noah Blake juxtaposes Husserl's foundational project of phenomenology with Adorno's negative dialectics. At stake is nothing less than the meaning of truth in modernity: is it secured in essences or preserved in fractures? Husserl's epoch , reduction, and eidetic intuition are reconstructed with care, showing how phenomenology seeks to free philosophy from inherited dogma. Yet Adorno insists that every gesture of purification is already mediated by history, language, and social forms. Where Husserl grounds science in transcendental subjectivity, Adorno detects reification and the silencing of suffering. The "non-identical" becomes philosophy's ethical compass: that which resists reconciliation, that which concepts cannot contain. The book demonstrates how temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity are reinterpreted when read through Adorno's critique. It argues that phenomenology's dream of apodictic foundation risks complicity with domination. Adorno's demand is sharper: fidelity to contradiction and remembrance of suffering as conditions of truth. Art and aesthetics emerge not as ornament but as a counter-method, allowing resistance to appear in form. Through this aesthetic lens, negative dialectics educates the concept to its own limits. Blake situates the debate within broader dialogues with Hegel, Kant, and Marx. He reveals how Husserl's search for invariants mirrors, paradoxically, the logic of commodity fetishism. Against this, Adorno's fragmentary style becomes philosophy's ethical practice of vigilance. Readers are introduced not to a new system but to a discipline of resistance. The book speaks to philosophers of phenomenology, critical theory, aesthetics, and epistemology alike. It combines exacting conceptual analysis with a refusal of easy reconciliation. Scholarly, elegant, and uncompromising, it offers a decisive contribution to the future of critical thought. Philosophy here is not closure but fidelity to what resists: the non-identical.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPWVT4WS
• ISBN13: 9798262930104
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"