Adorno’s Negative Dialectics closes with metaphysical meditations on death and hope.

Evidence

The second presented speculations in the philosophy of history concerning the concepts of world spirit and the history of nature, in the form of an excursus on Hegel. The third, `Meditations on Metaphysics’, dealt with concepts such as death, life, happiness, immortality, resurrection, transcendence and hopethe ultimate questions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 638

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the internal architecture of Negative Dialectics — its three models and the concepts each handles.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno closed his essays by alternating contradictory surveys of salvation’s prospects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 335; Adorno framed Negative Dialectics as philosophy extending itself from within — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2520; Adorno holds that eliminating death is the crucial test of utopian consciousness — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1518 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno closed his essays by alternating contradictory surveys of salvation’s prospects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 335; Adorno framed Negative Dialectics as philosophy extending itself from within — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2520; Adorno holds that eliminating death is the crucial test of utopian consciousness — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1518 (+2 more)