A philosophy matching the horror of barbarism must abandon explanatory causal detail

Evidence

The style of the theory will become simpler. But this is only because the style will expose simplicity, consciously making simplicity a reflection of the process of barbarization. The style will assimilate itself to the racketeers in the strength of its hatred, and thus become their opposite. Its logic will become as summary as their justice, as crude as their lies, as unscrupulous as their agentsand in this contradiction to barbarism it will become specific, exact and scrupulous … When philosophy omits the subordinate clause relativizing the mutilation of humanity, it will grant to horror the absoluteness which follows from that. The finest nuance of desire is sacred to philosophy. But in its lack of detailed description of the apparatus, the absence of syntactic links giving the why, when and wherefore of the disaster, there becomes eloquent in philosophy the night of despair in which one victim is the same as any other. Science reaches for statistics; but, for the understanding, one concentration camp is enough. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1328 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Philosophy must adopt barbarism’s own brutal style to oppose barbarism exactly — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1328; Cosmic horror offers no relief between determinism and chaos — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 290

Related

• Philosophy must adopt barbarism’s own brutal style to oppose barbarism exactly (similarity 0.91)
• Horkheimer rejected Tillich’s plan for a material-rich argumentative work as literary fireworks (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Philosophy must adopt barbarism’s own brutal style to oppose barbarism exactly #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1328