Husserl′s works cited in the text are listed below. The translations have in general been based on existing English versions, but all quotations have been revised in the interests of accuracy and consistency.
Against Epistemology was originally published in German under the title Zur Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie, Studien über Husserl und die phänomenologischen Antinomien. It first appeared in 1956 (Kohlhammer, Stuttgart), then later as vol. 5 of Adorno′s collected works, eds. Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1971), and finally in paperback (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1972). The marginal pagination in this translation follows that of the two Suhrkamp editions.
Other works by Adorno on the subject of Husserl and phenomenology are:
Adorno′s Preface gives the further publication history of the chapters of Against Epistemology. Finally, this information is communicated in the Editorial Postscript to vol. 5 of Gesammelte Schriften:
Adorno′s Oxford studies on Husserl of 1934–37 were preceded by an intensive treatment of phenomenology while Adorno was still a student. This led to the dissertation ′Die Transzendenz des Dinglichen und Noematischen in Husserls Phänomenologie′ with which Adorno acquired his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt a.M. on 28 July 1924 at the age of twenty. The dissertation, which at the time was only printed in a two-page synopsis, will be published in the first volume of the Collected Works. – Whereas Adorno′s first Husserl text criticized the concept of the thing-in-itself, as it is presented in Husserl′s Ideas, from the immanence philosophy position of Hans Cornelius, the work on Husserl which Adorno took up ten years later applies especially to work on questions of materialistic logic. Initially undertaken to obtain the Oxford doctorate in philosophy, Adorno laid the manuscript aside in the spring of 1937 and wrote his ′Versuch über Wagner′. The following year, after moving to New York, he worked on a comprehensive presentation which was intended for publication in Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, but never completed it … – The first, second and fourth chapters of the 1956 edition of Against Epistemology are based on portions of the Oxford manuscript. The Introduction and Chapter Three were written in 1955–56 especially for the book. The German title Zur Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie represents a compromise with the first publisher; Adorno originally intended to call it Die Phänomenologischen Antinomien (The Phenomenological Antinomies). In 1968 he still labelled it the most important of his books for him next to Negative Dialectics. He would allude to the Introduction above all as the work which, next to the article ′Der Essay als Form′ (The Essay as Form) in Noten zur Literatur I (Notes on Literature I), came closest to encompassing a programme for his philosophy.
A more complete Adorno bibliography can be found at the end of Theodor W. Adorno zum Gedächtnis, ed. Hermann Schweppenhauser (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1971).