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On Adorno's "Subject and Object"

Definition and Confinement

Adorno begins his essay "Subject and Object" by claiming that: "The terms [subject and object] are patently equivocal."¹ This may seem banal; after all, a serious theoretical approach must define its terms rigorously. For Adorno, however, the equivocal meaning of "subject" and "object" is only a symptom of the underlying condition, which he terms the problem of defining. To reflect on these terms, it is not enough to create better definitions, if one does not also rethink what the definition of definition implies and how it frustrates the specific definitions of subject and object. For Adorno, "Defining...