Negative Dialectics is an essay collection with a long introduction, not a system.

Evidence

His long books on the fundamentals of dialectics and aesthetics also sprang from an attempt to resolve the paradoxobserved, for example, in his Philosophy of Modern Musicthat the only works that counted today were those that no longer constituted works. Adorno was attempting to resolve this paradox in the spirit of his music teacher, Alban Berg, and to create great forms, works in fact, whose contents rebelled against the work. Like the Philosophy of Modern Music and Against Epistemology, the first result of these effortsNegative Dialecticsconsisted of a series of essays combined with a long introduction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 633

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapter’s account of Philosophy of Modern Music and Against Epistemology sharing the same essay-plus-introduction form. — connects to: Negative Dialectics was assembled from essays, lectures, and 1930s drafts — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2527
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Negative Dialectics was assembled from essays, lectures, and 1930s drafts — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2527