Fabian Freyenhagen is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is co-editor (with Thom Brooks) of The Legacy of John Rawls (2005) and (with Gordon Finlayson) of Disputing the Political: Habermas and Rawls (2011), and has published in journals such as the Kantian Review, Inquiry, Telos, and Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

• Introduction; 1. The whole is untrue; 2. No right living; 3. Social determination and negative freedom; 4. Adorno's critique of moral philosophy; 5. A new categorical imperative; 6. An ethics of resistance; 7. Justification, vindication, and explanation; 8. Negativism defended; 9. Adorno's negative Aristotelianism; Appendix: the jolt - Adorno on spontaneous willing.

'Freyenhagen has written a lucidly argued, patient, and relentless defense of Adorno's negative ethics that provides both an excellent addition to the secondary literature on Adorno, and, more importantly, a spirited intervention into current debates in contemporary moral philosophy. This work will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in the area of moral philosophy, making available as never before the bold structures of Adorno's negative ethics, and with its clear and direct writing and argument, this work would be entirely suitable for advanced undergraduates.' J. M. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research