- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Suhrkamp; First Edition edition (1973)
- ISBN-10: 0816491291
- ISBN-13: 978-0816491292
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Negative dialectics is obviously one of the most important texts for 20th century philosophy, and does not really require any introduction (aside, perhaps, from a warning of the difficulty of some of the passages - you need to know a fair amount about Hegel and Kant to understand it...).
The important thing is getting the right translation: whatever you do, do NOT get the Ashton one. It is fast becoming notorious, if for no reason other than the sheer quantity of blunders it makes. Entire passages are left pretty much unreadable (not to mention the violence done to the work of a stylist as subtle as Adorno). The Continuum version is, in my opinion at least, a far better bet, and to top it all off, it's cheaper too (both in terms of the literal price of the book and the fact that you won't have to buy a copy of the German original in order to work out what's going on).
The important thing is getting the right translation: whatever you do, do NOT get the Ashton one. It is fast becoming notorious, if for no reason other than the sheer quantity of blunders it makes. Entire passages are left pretty much unreadable (not to mention the violence done to the work of a stylist as subtle as Adorno). The Continuum version is, in my opinion at least, a far better bet, and to top it all off, it's cheaper too (both in terms of the literal price of the book and the fact that you won't have to buy a copy of the German original in order to work out what's going on).
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This continuum edition is the same miserable translation as the Routledge edition! Quite misleading not to make that clear -and what does the reviewer who thinks this one is better mean? It's the same one! has he read it?
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Wait for new translation
17 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
Famously bad translation of the central piece of Adorno's philosophy. I recommend getting Aesthetic Theory now and waiting for the next translator's attempt.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Read it at your own peril
17 July 2002
Format:Paperback
Negative Dialectic is very thought-provoking and difficult text in itself, but it is worth of the effort. If you are interested in Adorno, it is a must-have. Yet the English translation is unbearably inadequate, you may make better sense of it, if you consult with the original German text. The companion piece to Negative Dialectics is Adorno's Prism. Get Prism first, and wait for a better translation of ND.
36 of 47 people found the following review helpful
unfashionable sense
1 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Michel Foucault once stated that it was a great tragedy that the Frankfurt School and the French post-structuralists were unaware of each other's work. He felt that the two schools of thought could have gained much from dialogue, and this text illustrates his point in its relatedness to postmodern discourses on the limits of knowledge and the ends of positivistic philosophy.
Adorno addresses the relationship between the concept and the nonconceptualities, which is nothing more that the relationship between discourse and the Other in post-structuralist phraseology. The text is extraordinarily difficult - not always a problem explainable via the difficulties of the ideas involved - and I often find myself spending an hour reading and re-reading a page or two before being able to come to terms with the content. Personally, I enjoy such difficult reading, however, and find it an avenue for developing critical reasoning skills at the sime time as I re-investigate the problems addressed in the difficult prose.
I highly recommend this text for anyone interested in pessemistic, carefully thought-out discourses on the limits placed on understanding by the "pigeon-holeing" of conceptualization, anyone who enjoys cracking hard nuts via time, sweat, and frustration, and anyone looking for a difficult text to read superficially and criticize emptily as being an example of the poverty of post WWII continental philosophy. In a sense, it is a book for all . . .
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