Susan Buck-Morss examines and stresses the significance of Critical
Theory for young West German intellectuals after World War II.Looking at the
differences between German and American situations during this time
period, Origin of Negative Dialectics convincingly sketches the
learning process that ended in antagonism."[The
Origin of Negative Dialectics] is by far the best introduction
for the American reader to the complex, esoteric, and illusive
structure of thought of one of the most seminal Marxian thinkers of
the twentieth century. It belongs on the same shelf as Martin Jay's
history of the Frankfurt School, The Dialectical Imagination."
- Lewis A. Coser, State University of New York, Stony Brook
