Problems of Moral Philosophy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780745619415)

This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available to English-speaking readers. It is one of several volumes of Adorno's unpublished writings which are currently being published in Germany, and which will be published in translation by Polity Press. The book is organized around an account of Kant's moral theory, and introduces most of the central topics of Adorno's far more difficult work Negative Dialectics. He examines concepts such as the primacy of practical reason, the relation between freedom and experience, and the desubstantialization of moral thought. These and other concepts are discussed. This book should be an important resource for scholars drawing on Adorno's thought, and its nature as a lecture course should make it a useful introduction for students to Adorno's ideas about moral philosophy.