MARCUS VINICIUS DA CONCEIÇÃO FELIZARDO

The aim is to understand the meaning of metaphysics in Theodor Adorno's intellectual journey in its relationship, on the one hand, with Heidegger's fundamental ontology and the legacy of German idealism, from Kant to Hegelian dialectics. Our work is divided into four parts: first, to understand Adorno's critique of Heidegger's ontology and the importance of this clash for the elaboration of the Negative Dialectics project; at this point, our guiding thread is Heidegger's "ontologisation" of Kant's philosophy and his abandonment of metaphysics, and how Adorno refuses to accept this idea. Next, it is Hegel who takes centre stage; it is a question of understanding the Heideggerian reading of the concept of experience in Hegelian philosophy, also from its ontological presuppositions, and how Adorno, here, reads Hegel against Heidegger. The third point is to address Adorno's reading of the concept of Spirit in Hegel as "social labour" and how this critique leads to a renewed metaphysics, which would give voice to non-identity, and is best elaborated in the "Meditations on Metaphysics" in the last part of the Negative Dialectic and which constitutes our fourth moment.