ABSTRACT
It is obvious-indeed, I have sought to emphasize it-that the above attempt to deal with the problem of ‘order’ by transcending it is hardly problem free. Is it the case, then, that Adorno’s problem’ is, as he feared, insoluble? Are we indeed destined to remain forever locked in an increasingly constricting and depersonalizing ‘iron cage’, as some contemporary pessimists would suggest? Are we witnessing, in any event, the end of ‘order’, not in the sense that we are transcending it, but in the sense that perhaps it of necessity transcends us?
