Negative Dialectics was assembled from essays, lectures, and 1930s drafts

Evidence

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. As well as the long introductory essay, the book contained three sections, Relation to Ontology', Negative Dialectics: Concept and Categories’ and `Models’, the first two based on lectures given at the Collège de France in Paris, and the last taking up themes from drafts and texts written in the 1930s. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2527

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Dialectic of Enlightenment began as a provisional fragment collection rather than a finished work — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 741

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