Books like Negative Dialectics

So, this is great, but the translation is *horrific*. I'm not sure you can read this translation and have any idea what Adorno was getting at. Instead, try this free version: http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans....which works well enough as is. Adorno's basic insight isn't even that hard to grasp, though: philosophy fails because it assumes the world must be consistent. But the world is 'contradictory,' or 'antagonistic.' We live in a social world which has been built up to provide humans with what we need, but over time that world itself has come to be an end, rather than a means. Hence, no matter how rational we make things (thankyou, econometricians) the whole is irrational, hence, 'contradictory.' So when philosophy claims that it has understood the consistent world, it is just covering up the antagonism. And this is bad. But it's also good, since it suggests that the world doesn't *have* to be antagonistic. There's much more to it I guess, but that's good enough for one lifetime. Thankyou, Theo.