Adorno’s dialectics book was a protohistory of idealism and domineering subjectivity

Evidence

From the point of view of Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s development as theoreticians, it is clear that for Adorno starting work on the dialectics book represented the moment at which he was able to begin writing a protohistory of idealism, of immanence, of the self-satisfied intellect and of domineering subjectivity, by contrast with Benjamin’s project of writing a protohistory of the nineteenth century. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1365

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment project actually was — a protohistory of idealism and immanence, contrasted with Benjamin’s protohistory of the nineteenth century.