ABSTRACT This article discusses dialectics as a method of critique which takes concepts it primal object of inquiry. Through a reading of Theodor W. Adorno’s lecture course Introduction to Dialectics, it argues that for dialectical critique concepts are living organs of social reality whose work must observed in terms of constellations of experiences and practices, and through specific historical sites and social processes. The article reconstructs three moments in Adorno’s thinking of critique’s relation to conceptuality: the “pedagogical effect” of concepts on our habits of thought, the socio-historical formation of concepts as “fields of force”, and the need of a “micrological method” of engagement with social reality. Within this framework, the article shows that the movement of dialectical critique is prompted by the cognitive utopia of using concepts to reach material reality, as well as by the ethical demand of making justice to what is not grasped by the existing conceptual order of society. By combining both moments, the goal of dialectical critique is not to identify the correct meaning of concepts, but to work through them as to unlock the normative imagination of society.

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流动的方法：辩证批评和概念的工作

摘要本文讨论辩证法作为一种批判方法，该方法以概念为主要探究对象。通过阅读西奥多·W·阿多诺（Theodor W. Adorno）的演讲课《辩证法概论》，它认为，对于辩证批评的概念是社会现实的生命器官，必须根据经验和实践的星座，特定的历史遗址和社会过程来观察其工作。这篇文章重构了阿多诺对批判与概念性关系的思考中的三个时刻：概念对我们的思维习惯的“教学作用”，概念作为“力场”的社会历史形成以及对“微观方法”的需求与社会现实的互动。在这个框架内，文章表明，辩证批评的运动是由于使用概念达到物质现实的认知乌托邦，以及对公正的伦理要求，即对社会现有概念秩序无法把握的正义。通过将这两个时刻结合起来，辩证批评的目的不是识别概念的正确含义，而是通过它们的工作来释放社会的规范想象力。