The formulation' negative dialectic 'attempts against tradition. Already in Plato, the dialectic wants to obtain something positive through the intellectual instrument of denial; later, the figure of a denial of denial designated this laconically. This book would like to liberate the dialectic from such an affirmative essence, without diminishing the determination. Winding his paradoxical title is one of his sights. ' New translation of one of the absolute references in the production of Adorno, which in this edition is accompanied by 'The jargon of authenticity', according to the original conception of the author himself.