Vorlesung über Negative Dialektik

The Lecture on Negative Dialectics is the last of the four lectures from 1960 to 1966 that accompanied the creation of Adorno's Negative Dialectics. Together with the three preceding lectures - Ontology and Dialectics, On the Doctrine of History and of Freedom, and Metaphysics. Concepts and Problems - it forms both a propaedeutic and the self-commentary on Adorno's main work of 1966. Varying themes found in the book under the title "Introduction," Adorno unfolds in the lectures a "theory of intellectual experience" in which he attempts to characterize the philosophy he always had in mind. This theory was nothing less than a methodology of his philosophy in general.