Impossibility of Metaphysical Optimism within the Context of Negative Dialectic

This study is to discuss the possibility and content of metaphysics today through an examination of the fundamental findings of Adorno, who is one of the most significant theorists of the 20th century. Contemporary philosophy suffers from a depression resulting from discussions on the end of history and the end of philosophy. The findings of Adorno who developed his philosophy about the content of the metaphysics based on the Auschwitz experience which he regarded as an ethical disaster are vital and explanatory. Adorno, who is a symbol of negation through negative dialectic in opposition to the affirmative quality of conventional theory, puts metaphysics among his targets in his criticism. He grasps a conflict through drawing attention to the fragmented harmony and even to antagonism between metaphysical thought and worldly experience. In addition, he adopts a radical attitude in metaphysical criticism through problematizing the question whether life is possible or not after Auschwitz. He arrives not at the denial of metaphysics like other positivists but at a radical change through emphasizing the strong need for an awareness of the varying nature of the internal patterns of metaphysics. Metaphysics, for instance, which formerly pointed out what is transcendental, and which has now transformed into a material reality, has to be in harmony with worldly experience and suffering today. In other words, it has to be based on the real suffering rather than affirmative estimations