Adorno’s historical defense of typologies fails to justify classifying the genuinely autonomous

Evidence

This, however, might explain the use of a typology to explain reified personalities, but not those who still retained some authentic subjectivity. These, presumably, would be the more tolerant, but Adorno used a typology to describe them as well. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 682

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno adopted ego psychology and character typologies he had formally condemned, diluting nonidentity theory — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 680; Adorno’s character typology split people by standardization versus lived individuality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1807; Adorno could not ground how the archaic impulse might grow into genuine individuality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2568