Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- ADORNO AND THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL -- ADORNO: INTELLECTUAL LIFE -- ADORNO'S DISTINCTNESS -- ADORNO'S PRINCIPAL TEXTS -- ADORNO'S RECEPTION -- Disciplinary Contributions -- OUR READING OF ADORNO -- Adorno's Utopia -- Adorno's Positive Dialectic -- Prelude to Adorno's Positive Dialectic -- Prelude I Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: German Philosophy -- I. ENLIGHTENMENT AND CRITIQUE -- Kant -- The Frankfurt School and Kant -- II. PHILOSOPHIES OF HISTORY -- Hegel -- Marx -- Later Marxism -- Early Frankfurt School -- Enlightenment and Myth -- The Narrative of Western History -- III. ADORNO AND HORKHEIMER AND GERMAN PHILOSOPHY -- Prelude II Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: Sigmund Freud -- FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS -- ADORNO AND FREUD -- Adorno's Appropriation of Freud -- Adorno's 'Psychological' Philosophy of History -- ADORNO: COMBINING A HEGELIAN-MARXIST PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND FREUD -- Idealist-Materialism and Freud -- The Historical and Natural Self -- The Historical and 'Universal' Self -- CONCLUSION -- Adorno's Positive Dialectic -- PART I NEGATIVE THESIS -- INTRODUCTION -- ENLIGHTENMENT'S FAILURE -- 1 The Decline of Subjectivity -- INTRODUCTION -- ADORNO OF FREUD -- FREUD -- NARRATIVE OF DECLINE -- Impoverishment -- Fantasy -- Totalisation -- Fragmentation: Postmodernism -- CONCLUSION -- 2 The Decline of Subjectivity -- INTRODUCTION -- FREUD -- ADORNO -- Enlightenment -- Myth -- Enlightenment to Myth -- Fantastical and Instrumental Myth -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The Decline of 'Knowledge Acquisition' -- INTRODUCTION -- ADORNO: KNOWLEDGE ACQUISTION. 'REPRESENTATION' -- Freud: Knowledge Acquisition -- Adorno from Freud: Knowledge Acquisition -- Hegelian-Marxism: Knowledge Acquisition.

Adorno from Hegelian-Marxism: Knowledge Acquisition -- ADORNO -- Identification -- Identification By Representation -- ADORNO: CRITIQUE OF CONCEPTUALISATION -- Representation -- Identification -- 4 Knowledge Acquisition -- INTRODUCTION -- DIALECTIC: MYTH AND ENLIGHTENMENT -- DIALECTIC: INSTRUMENTAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISTION AND ANIMISM -- IDENTITY THINKING -- NON-IDENTITY THINKING -- CONTRADICTION -- Contradiction in Representation -- DIALECTIC 'IDENTITY AND NON-IDENTITY THINKING' IN REPRESENTATION -- CONTRADICTION IN IDENTIFICATION -- The 'Representative' Form -- Identification's Own Form -- CONCLUSION -- Concluding Comments on Part I of Adorno's Positive Dialectic: Negative Thesis -- PART II POSITIVE THESIS -- INTRODUCTION -- 5 The Aesthetic -- INTRODUCTION -- THE AESTHETIC -- THE HISTORY OF AURA -- INTERPRETATION -- RECEPTIVITY -- ABSORPTION -- 6 Knowledge Acquisition -- INTRODUCTION -- AURATIC OBJECTS -- IDENTIFICATION -- A KIND OF KNOWING -- ABSORPTION AND MYTHIC PROJECTION -- ABSORPTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT IDENTIFICATION -- REPRESENTATION -- 7 A Positive Dialectic of Knowledge Acquisition -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DIALECTIC -- IDENTIFICATION -- Opposition -- The Consequences of Opposition: Negation -- Non-Identity-Thinking -- Connection -- The Consequences of Connection -- REPRESENTATION -- CONCLUSION -- 8 A Positive Dialectic of Subjectivity -- INTRODUCTION -- INSTINCTS -- DIALECTIC OF THE INSTINCTS -- POSITIVE DIALECTIC -- Opposition -- Connection -- CONCLUSION -- 9 A Positive Dialectic of Subjectivity -- INTRODUCTION -- UNITY -- ABSORPTIVE UNITY -- DIALECTIC -- POSITIVE DIALECTIC -- Negation -- Connection -- CONCLUSION -- Concluding Comments -- UTOPIANISM -- DEBATES -- Bibliography -- Primary Texts. English translations are used except where inadequate. Translation difficulties are discussed in the text. -- Secondary Texts -- Index.