Description
Book SynopsisMakes Adornoa s lectures on metaphysics available for the first time to English--speaking readersExamines the history of metaphysics from modern to classical timesAn ideal introduction to the central preoccupations of Adornoa s difficult masterpiece, Negative Dialectics.
Trade Review'This volume of lectures brings together Adorno's thoughts on metaphysics and culture in post-war Germany ... This translation is excellent and the footnotes provided by Rolf Tiedemann are exemplary.'
SociologyTable of ContentsThe Concept of Metaphysics.
1. What is Metaphysics?.
2. Doctrine of the First Cause.
3. History of the Concept.
Aristotle's Metaphysics.
4. Plato, Aristotle and Heidegger.
5. Universal and Particular.
6. Genesis and Validity.
7. Mediation and the Happy Medium.
8. The Doctrine of Immutability.
9. Form and Matter.
10. The Problem of Mediation.
11. Movement, Change.
12. The Unmoved Mover.
13. Athens and Auschwitz.
14. The Liquidation of the Self.
15. Metaphysics and Materialism.
16. Consciousness of Negativity.
17. Dying Today.
18. Metaphysical Experience.
Editor's Notes.
Editor's Afterword.
Index.
