BETWEEN MORAL ACT AND MIMESIS
BETWEEN MORAL ACT AND MIMESIS

Summary/Abstract: This study tries to update a model of approaching the Adornian ethics in two ways: 1) An analysis of the moral fact, as a starting point (logical and structural) - when possible - marked? populated? by mental images and analogies (including in the context of art) and sending towards antecedent, as shown especially in ŖMinima Moraliaŗ and ŖAesthetic theoryŗ; 2) A summary of a sufficient number of Adornian "constellations" to justify the search of the relation between art and ethics; Both approaches are still fragmented and provisional, indicating methods of interpretation implied as the relationship between "actual situation found" (E) and "what could be reflected as acceptable" read "estimation"(e ) under the term of normativity not recognized by most commentators, even if the author brings us Ŗante portasŗ (Ŗin front of the gates"), i.e. bringing qualifications and disqualifications of successive axiological ŖEŗ and Ŗeŗ. However, Adorno refuses abstraction, generalization and final rule: even the fact that he holds together further interpretative possibilities, it is an honest attitude to refrain from any approximation, i.e. leaving them in free evolution. If the type of Ŗeducation after Auschwitzŗ proposed by Adorno to avoid Barbary, may have a certain resilience, or - that is the question - the "ethical deliberation" and "spontaneous moral response" may involve a release from a certain mimesis (artistic, cultural and ethical), or just by reflexive exercises on self-interest, so that rationality not to ŖinstrumentalŖ, but a significant one by potential of the acceptable?

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