"'Solidarity at the Time of the Fall': Adorno and Rorty on Moral Realism."

This paper attempts to show, by means of arguments by Theodor W. Adorno, that Richard Rorty's criticism of Moral Realism is not fully developed, and further, that Rorty himself proposes a naïve account, in which the ethnic group functions as an ultimate measure of moral judgment without any possibility of critique. By contrast Adorno offers a figure of thought by which, even without the assumption of a Moral Realism in the traditional sense, such a criticism is entirely possible. The paper will end with the consideration that Adorno's philosophy can be described as a kind of enlightened Moral Realism.