Adorno’s negative dialectics shares core moves with Derrida’s deconstruction

Evidence

Adorno’s “negative dialectics” and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction have also earned frequent comparisons because of their common rejection of totalizing philosophies of identity, distrust of first principles and origins, suspicion of idealist ideologies of sublation, and valorization of allegorical over symbolic modes of representation. Although the resolutely utopian Adorno resisted accepting the repetition without resolution that has been so congenial to the deconstructive temper,” his “melancholy science” has seemed to some only a small step away from the principled refusal to mourn in Derrida. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Useful comparison for anyone who has read Derrida and needs the Frankfurt School situated relative to deconstruction. — connects to: Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2534; Cavell’s reading reveals deep convergence between Wittgenstein and Derrida — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 354

Broader Connections

• Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2534