Adorno published almost no philosophy books before Negative Dialectics in 1966.

Evidence

As a (specialist) philosopher Adorno remained in the background for a very long time. This was partly because philosophy was not the field of activity in which an institute could improve its reputation, partly because of the limited audience for the subject, but mainly because most of Adorno’s specifically philosophical activity consisted for a long period in lecturing and giving seminars. In addition, Adorno wanted to be a specialist philosopher even less than he wanted to be a specialist sociologist. Apart from the new edition of his book on Kierkegaard (1962) and the essay collection Three Studies on Hegel (1963), he only published one book of philosophy in the narrower sense before Negative Dialectics appeared in 1966: Against Epistemology: a MetacritiqueStudies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies (1956). The book took up a few of the complex issues dealt with in the long manuscript of his Oxford thesis on Husserl and reworked them. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 558

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno published just one narrow philosophy book before Negative Dialectics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2259
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno published just one narrow philosophy book before Negative Dialectics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2259