Negative Dialectics

Negative Dialectics: Adorno’s term for a relentlessly critical form of thought that refuses to accept any conceptual synthesis as adequate to the reality it conceives.

Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.