Pt. I. The Task of Philosophy. 1. The Actuality of Philosophy. 2. Why Philosophy? 3. Negative Dialectics and the Possibility of Philosophy. 4. The Melancholy Science. 5. Meditations of Metaphysics: After Auschwitz -- Pt. II. The Concepts of Philosophy. 6. The Essay as Form. 7. Metacritique of Epistemology. 8. Subject and Object -- Pt. III. Sociology. 9. The Concept of Enlightenment. 10. Sociology and Empirical Research -- Pt. IV. Art, Culture and Society. 11. Cultural Criticism and Society. 12. Lyric Poetry and Society. 13. Culture Industry Reconsidered. 14. The Autonomy of Art -- Pt. V. Criticism. 15. The Perennial Fashion - Jazz. 16. Arnold Schoenberg, 1874-1951. 17. Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis. 18. Trying to Understand Endgame.