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Theodor Adorno's Augustinian Project

"I wanted to be just as certain about things that I could not see as I was certain that seven and three make ten," St. Augustine announces in his Confessions, in a statement suggesting why Platonism's ideal, unchanging forms provide an attractive model for his philosophical theology.¹ That desire for absolute truth parallels the Enlightenment project to explain the world in verifiable, typically abstract terms rather than inherited prejudices reinforcing myths. As Jean-François Lyotard demonstrates in The Confession of Augustine, Augustine's conversion narrative corresponds to that Enlightenment project, in general, and the standard models of monadic subjectivity, in particular, which...