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Lectures on Negative Dialectics Native American Studies ' Guardian *Books of theThis volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, Negative Dialectics. These lectures focus on developing the concepts critical to the introductory section of that book. They show Adorno as an embattled philosopher defining his own methodology among the prevailing trends of the time. As a critical theorist, he repudiated the worn out Marxist stereotypes still dominant in the Soviet bloc