阿多諾的歷史理論試圖克服自然與歷史的概念對立，將歷史視為一有別於自然科學的、具有其自身獨特意涵的自然史的辯證。在對黑格爾歷史哲學的內在批判與對海德格基礎存有學的根本質疑之框架中，阿多諾以迂迴的方式回復到康德歷史哲學的軌跡，將歷史視為一個動態的過程，它是人與其傳統的行為方式、與其自身的行為方式之間的關係，它的獨特性在於它必須不斷創造出新的事物，以使它不致於在一種純粹的同一性中使自身消耗殆盡。對阿多諾而言，歷史性不是一個空洞的存有學概念，而是必須在歷史的具體條件的基礎分析上被建立的。阿多諾的自然史觀點，探問的是具體的歷史該如何被解釋。自然與歷史的概念在阿多諾的理論框架之中其實是相互映照的。

This paper aims to investigate the important topics of the theory of history in Theodor W. Adorno’s “Negative Dialectics” (1966). This theory of history tries to overcome the conceptual contradiction between nature and history, and regards the history as a kind of the dialectics of natural history. Through a so called “immanent critique” of the Hegelian philosophy of history, Adorno conceptualized history as a dynamic process which is the relationship between men and their ways of action. It tends to create something new, it seems not to be exhausted in the eternal return of the same “identity”.