Adorno's Procedural Reconstruction of a Damaged Life

This text provides an in-depth analysis of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, focusing on his concept of negative dialectics as a tool for critiquing contemporary society. The author explains why the famous statement "the whole is false" provides the foundation for a new ethics of resistance to organized heteronomy. The article explores the method of micrology, which allows us to discern the mechanisms of violence in everyday details, and proposes the implementation of a pedagogy of autonomy. Through procedural rigor and the practice of justification, Adorno points the way to the reconstruction of damaged lives, offering theoretical support for threatened democratic structures. This is a crucial voice in the debate on the autonomy of the subject in a world dominated by the logic of domination and the mimesis of labor.