Bernstein too emphasizes the moral dimension of this task, arguing that “[n]egative dialectics as a whole is a response to damaged sensuous particularity” (2001: 361).
Indeed, Adorno describes truth in a more emphatic way when he asserts that the condition of all truth lies in “the need to lend a voice to suffering” (ND 17). Philosophy can do “justice to the experience of nature only when … it incorporates nature’s wounds” (AT 68).
To return to a remark made by Stone, constellations lend a voice to suffering by showing that natural things “have been damaged, prevented from existing in their spontaneous forms” (Stone 2006: 243). (ibid, pp. 85-86)
