Adorno’s character typology split people by standardization versus lived individuality

Evidence

Adorno’s main principle for dividing the types up was the extent to which people themselves were standardized and thought in stereotypes or else were `real’ individuals, capable of living experience, who opposed the standardization of human experience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1807

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno defended typologies because capitalism had destroyed authentic individualism for most people — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 681; Adorno’s historical defense of typologies fails to justify classifying the genuinely autonomous — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 682; Adorno’s pseudo-conservative distinction added psychological depth to the political concept of conservatism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1587 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno defended typologies because capitalism had destroyed authentic individualism for most people #expands (0.90) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 681
• Adorno’s historical defense of typologies fails to justify classifying the genuinely autonomous #contradicts (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 682
• Adorno’s pseudo-conservative distinction added psychological depth to the political concept of conservatism #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1587
• Adorno adopted ego psychology and character typologies he had formally condemned, diluting nonidentity theory #complicates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 680
• Uncritical worldviews make a single personality a composite of many historical layers #expands (0.75)