{"product_id":"lectures-on-negative-dialectics-fragments-of-a-lecture-course-1965-1966-hardback-9780745635095","title":"Lectures on Negative Dialectics; Fragments of a Lecture Course 1965\/1966 (Hardback) 9780745635095","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLectures on Negative Dialectics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFragments of a Lecture Course 1965\/1966\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTheodor W. Adorno (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745635095, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 August 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.653 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJ. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, \u003ci\u003eNegative Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. As a critical theorist, he repudiated the worn-out Marxist stereotypes still dominant in the Soviet bloc – he specifically addresses his remarks to students who had escaped from the East in the period leading up to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Influenced as he was by the empirical schools of thought he had encountered in the United States, he nevertheless continued to resist what he saw as their surrender to scientific and mathematical abstraction. However, their influence was potent enough to prevent him from reverting to the traditional idealisms still prevalent in Germany, or to their latest manifestations in the shape of the new ontology of Heidegger and his disciples. Instead, he attempts to define, perhaps more simply and fully than in the final published version, a ‘negative', i.e. critical, approach to philosophy. Permeating the whole book is Adorno’s sense of the overwhelming power of totalizing, dominating systems in the post-Auschwitz world. Intellectual negativity, therefore, commits him to the stubborn defence of individuals – both facts and people – who stubbornly refuse to become integrated into ‘the administered world’. \u003cp\u003eThese lectures reveal Adorno to be a lively and engaging lecturer. He makes serious demands on his listeners but always manages to enliven his arguments with observations on philosophers and writers such as Proust and Brecht and comments on current events. Heavy intellectual artillery is combined with a concern for his students’ progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator’s Note\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditor’s Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLectures One to Ten\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture One: The Concept of Contradiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Two: The Negation of Negation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Three: Whether negative dialectics is possible\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Four: Whether philosophy is possible without system\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Five: Theory and practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Six: Being, Nothing, Concept\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Seven: ‘Attempted breakouts’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Eight: The concept of intellectual experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Nine: The element of speculation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture Ten: Philosophy and ‘depth’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLectures Eleven to Twenty-Five: Negative Dialectics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Notes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: The Theory of Intellectual Experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographical Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407301603608,"sku":"9780745635095","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745635095.jpg?v=1784160170","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lectures-on-negative-dialectics-fragments-of-a-lecture-course-1965-1966-hardback-9780745635095","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}