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Negative Dialectics
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The first British paperback edition of this modern classic penned by one of the towering intellectuals of the twentieth century. Negative Dialectics is a vital weapon in making sense of modern times.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #746612 in Books
- Published on: 1990-04-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
Editorial Reviews
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'Here the programmatic aim of Adorno's earlier writings has come to fruition.' - Times Literary Supplement, from the review of the German edition.
From the Back Cover
`To the isolated, isolation seems an indubitable certainty; they are bewitched on pain of losing their existence, not to perceive how mediated their isolation is.' Theodor Adorno.
Theodor Adorno was one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Negative Dialectics is his major and culminating work. In it he attempts to free critical thought from the blinding orthodoxies of late capitalism, and earlier ages too. The book is essential reading for students of Adorno and is a vital weapon in making sense of modern times.
`Here the programme of Adorno's earlier writings has come to fruition.' TLS
Customer Reviews
a note on editions
Negative dialectics is obviously one of the most important texts for 20th century philosophy, and does not really require any introduction (aside, perhaps, from a warning of the difficulty of some of the passages - you need to know a fair amount about Hegel and Kant to understand it...).
The important thing is getting the right translation: whatever you do, do NOT get the Ashton one. It is fast becoming notorious, if for no reason other than the sheer quantity of blunders it makes. Entire passages are left pretty much unreadable (not to mention the violence done to the work of a stylist as subtle as Adorno). The Continuum version is, in my opinion at least, a far better bet, and to top it all off, it's cheaper too (both in terms of the literal price of the book and the fact that you won't have to buy a copy of the German original in order to work out what's going on).
