Adorno built his anti-systematic dialectics from an anti-identity insight concealed inside Hegel’s system.

Evidence

Dialectics, developed by Hegel within the framework of the idealist system and used by him as the principle of substantive philosophizing, held concealed the experience of the resistance of the object to the subject, the resistance of the non-identical to the identical. This made possible, and in Adorno’s eyes even required, a dialectics freed from the philosophy of identity, one that was anti-systematic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 635

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the technical apparatus of Adorno’s negative dialectic — dialectics released from the philosophy of identity.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno reframed Lukács’s class-centered Hegelian Marxism into speculative self-recognition