El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar la Dialéctica negativa como una obra fundamental del pensamiento de Adorno. En ella el autor desarrolla las antinomias existentes en el concepto de razón instrumental, para proclamar después la necesidad de establecer una nueva noción de racionalidad: una razón de carácter dialéctico, negativo y material, que afirma, a su vez, la no identidad entre sujeto y objeto, entre pensamiento y realidad. De este modo, la filosofía deviene crítica del Idealismo, sistema filosófico que defiende (...) el pensamiento identificador y la sociedad irracional que éste fundamenta, imposibilitando una auténtica libertad. Frente a él Adorno define la reflexión metafísica como "dialéctica negativa" y antisistema, cuyo método de proceder es el análisis de "modelos" de pensamiento, consecuencia de su propia epistemología crítica. The main goal of this article is to present Negative Dialectics as a central theme in the Adorno¿s thought. In this work Adorno develops the antinomies that there are in the concept of instrumental reason, in order to assert the necessity for a new notion of rationality: a dialectical, negative and materialistic reason, which holds, at the same time, the non identity between subject-object, thought and reality. In this way Philosophy becomes critique of Idealism because this philosophical system defends the "identity thinking" and the irrational society that supports, making a true freedom impossible. Instead of this conception Adorno defines Metaphysics as "negative dialectics¿"and antisystem, whose method is the analysis of thinking¿s models, as a result of his own critical epistemology. (shrink)

The main goal of this article is to present Negative Dialectics as a central theme in the Adorno’s thought. In this work Adorno develops the antinomies that there are in the concept of instrumental reason, in order to assert the necessity for a new notion of rationality: a dialectical, negative and materialistic reason, which holds, at the same time, the non identity between subject-object, thought and reality. In this way Philosophy becomes critique of Idealism because this philosophical system defends the (...) “identity thinking” and the irrational society that supports, making a true freedom impossible. Instead of this conception Adorno defines Metaphysics as “negative dialectics” and antisystem, whose method is the analysis of thinking’s models, as a result of his own critical epistemology. (shrink)