The Disintegration of "Identical Thought" and The Formation of "Negative Dialectics":On Adorno's Exposition on the Thought of Traditional Metaphysics

After reflecting on the human sufferings during the first half of the 20th century,Adorno puts forward a full exposition and criticism on traditional metaphysical identical thought.This is done in two steps:first,he negates the dichotomic frame of subject and object,the unfounded conceptual imperialism,and the force of the total system;second,he disintegrates Hegel's dialectics and founds the negative dialectics.