@article{1386188,
      recid = {1386188},
      author = {O'Connor, Brian,},
      title = {Adorno's negative dialectic : philosophy and the  possibility of critical rationality /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xviii, 204 pages).},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's  negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the  concreteness of critical theory; Adorno's philosophy  considers perhaps the most traditional subject of "pure"  philosophy, the structure of experience, whereas critical  theory examines specific aspects of society. But, as Brian  O'Connor demonstrates in this highly original  interpretation of Adorno's philosophy, the negative  dialectic can be seen as the theoretical foundation of the  reflexivity or critical rationality required by critical  theory. Adorno, O'Connor argues, is committed to the  "concretion" of philosophy: his thesis of nonidentity  attempts to show that reality is not reducible to  appearances. This lays the foundation for the applied  "concrete" critique of appearances that is essential to the  possibility of critical theory. To explicate the context in  which Adorno's philosophy operates--the tradition of modern  German philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger--O'Connor  examines in detail the ideas of these philosophers as well  as Adorno's self-defining differences with them. O'Connor  discusses Georg LucA cs and the influence of his  "protocritical theory" on Adorno's thought; the elements of  Kant's and Hegel's German idealism appropriated by Adorno  for his theory of subject-object mediation; the priority of  the object and the agency of the subject in Adorno's  epistemology; and Adorno's important critiques of Kant and  the phenomenology of Heidegger and Husserl, critiques that  both illuminate Adorno's key concepts and reveal his  construction of critical theory through an engagement with  the problems of philosophy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386188},
}