RENATA INARAH GUERRA SANTOS

This study aims to clarify the logical meaning of the idea of negative dialectics in Theodor W. Adorno’s critical theory. For this purpose, we first investigate the genesis of the theme in his early writings and the transformations it undergoes in the light of the philosophical tradition comprising Kant, Hegel, and Marx. In a second step, analyzing the texts belonging to the complex of negative dialectics which the homonymous book integrates, we seek to demonstrate to what extent Adorno rehabilitates and critiques modern dialectics, especially the Hegelian variant. In this movement, we argue that negative dialectics articulates what we call an inverted logic of reflection, in which the concept of a logic of disintegration is consolidated both as a critique of society and of dialectics itself.