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Negative Dialectics

by Theodor W. Adorno · 1966

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The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of dialectics.

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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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GermanyGermanyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 440 pages

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