MARCUS VINICIUS DA CONCEIÇÃO FELIZARDO

This work aims to understand the meaning of the concept of metaphysics in Theodor W. Adorno's intellectual experience in its relationship, on the one hand, with Heidegger's fundamental ontology and, on the other, with German idealism, Kant and Hegel, and their heritage (Marx). The dissertation first investigates Adorno's critique of Heidegger's ontology and the importance of this confrontation for the elaboration of the Negative Dialectics (1966) 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. After that, it is Hegel who takes on the protagonism; it is a question of understanding, mainly in the Three Studies on Hegel (1963), the Heideggerian reading of the concept of experience in Hegelian philosophy, also from its ontological presuppositions, and how Adorno, here, reads Hegel against Heidegger. Finally, based on the results of the discussion on the concept of experience, the aim is to interpret the meanings of ‘metaphysical experience’, as elaborated by Adorno at different occasions, mainly in his lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1959) and Metaphysics. Concept and Problems (1965) and, of course, in the last model of the Negative Dialectics (1966).