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NEGATIVE DIALECTICS A method of critical analysis developed by German theoretician Theodor W. Adorno in order to decode the expanding world of multinational capitalism. Along with his colleague Max Horkheimer, Adorno produced a critique of reason in The Dialectic of Enlightenment (first published 1947), drawing on their experience of both German fascism and American commodity capitalism. The mode of thought seen in embryonic form in this book is further developed in Adorno's posthumously published Negative Dialectics (1970).
Adorno attempted to bridge the gap between aesthetics and deterministic Marxist thinking by harnessing the work of the influential cultural theorist Walter Benjamin, after working with him at the Frankfurt School ...
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