This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor. W. Adornös philosophy: the nonidentical. The nonidentical is what our conceptual framework cannot grasp and must therefore silence, the unexpressed other of our rational engagement with the world. This study presents the nonidentical as the multidimensional centerpiece of Adornös reflections on subjectivity, truth, suffering, history, art, morality and politics, revealing the intimate relationship between how and what we think. Adornös work, written in the shadow of Auschwitz, is a quest for a different way of thinking, one that would give the nonidentical a voice ¿ as the somatic in reasoning, the ephemeral in truth, the aesthetic in