Negative Dialectics

Negative Dialectics
The 1990 Routledge edition
Author(s)	Theodor W. Adorno
Original title	Negative Dialektik
Translator	E. B. Ashton
Language	German
Subject(s)	Philosophy
Publisher	Suhrkamp Verlag
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print

Part of a series on the
Frankfurt School
Major works
Reason and Revolution The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Eclipse of Reason The Fear of Freedom Dialectic of Enlightenment Minima Moralia Eros and Civilization One-Dimensional Man Negative Dialectics The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere The Theory of Communicative Action
Notable theorists
Max Horkheimer · Theodor Adorno Herbert Marcuse · Walter Benjamin Erich Fromm · Friedrich Pollock Leo Löwenthal · Jürgen Habermas
Important concepts
Critical Theory · Dialectic · Praxis Psychoanalysis · Antipositivism Popular culture · Culture industry Advanced capitalism · Privatism Non-Identity · Communicative Rationality Legitimation Crisis
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Negative Dialectics (German: Negative Dialektik) is a 1966 book by Theodor W. Adorno (first translated into English in 1973) that is considered his magnum opus. Adorno challenges the metaphysics of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, while simultaneously building his ideas towards emancipation from the capitalist order.

Negative Dialectics is a notoriously difficult work, in particular for English readers who have had at their disposal a translation known for its inaccuracies.^{[citation needed]}

Further reading

• Dennis Redmond's updated translation of Negative Dialectics, with commentary.
• Buck-Morss, Susan. Origin of Negative Dialectics. Free Press, 1979.
• Jameson, Fredric. Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic. Verso, 2007.

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