Adorno and the Future

Abstract Theodor W. Adorno did not develop a consistent, comprehensive philosophical position on the future. Nevertheless, analyzing Adorno’s writings on the nature of historical time, and the conditions of capitalist modernity, we can reconstruct a radical alternative mode of thinking about the human future. Appropriating and transforming both Hegel’s and Walter Benjamin’s conceptions of universal history, Adorno develops a vision of natural history that criticizes the ideology of historical pr