Description
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, Negative Dialectics. These lectures focus on developing the concepts critical to the introductory section of that book. They show Adorno as an embattled philosopher defining his own methodology among the prevailing trends of the time.
Trade Review"The best introduction to Adorno's thought is Adorno's lectures: patient and expansive, they provide the darkest corners of his thought with light and air. Aiming to elaborate the basic assumptions and working method behind his philosophical practice in general, these lapidary lectures touch on many of the most difficult aspects of Adorno's philosophy."
J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research
Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note
Editor’s Foreword
Lectures One to Ten
Lecture One: The Concept of Contradiction
Lecture Two: The Negation of Negation
Lecture Three: Whether negative dialectics is possible
Lecture Four: Whether philosophy is possible without system
Lecture Five: Theory and practice
Lecture Six: Being, Nothing, Concept
Lecture Seven: ‘Attempted breakouts’
Lecture Eight: The concept of intellectual experience
Lecture Nine: The element of speculation
Lecture Ten: Philosophy and ‘depth’
Lectures Eleven to Twenty-Five: Negative Dialectics
Additional Notes
Appendix: The Theory of Intellectual Experience
Bibliographical Sources
