Metaphysics

These lectures, from a course concerned with the final section of Negative Dialectics

, take up what Adorno considered the most serious question faced by philosophy today-whether after Auschwitz one can go on living-and extend it into a sustained engagement with the Aristotlean categories, his only extensive treatment of a theme from ancient philosophy to have been preserved. This volume makes available in English for the first time the famed lectures on metaphysics by one of the founders of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint.