Adorno could not ground how the archaic impulse might grow into genuine individuality

Evidence

There is a flash of light between the poles of something long past, something grown all but unrecognizable, and that which some day might come to be'. … But the line that connected the impulse before the ego’ with anticipations of what lay beyond the ego and would represent genuine individuality remained obscureas obscure as the faith that gentle strength would predominate over unconstrained self-preservation in the somatic impulse, in instinct, in what was wild. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2568

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘dialectic of enlightenment’ theme where archaic recollection within the subject is Counter-Enlightenment’s redemption of nature, from the earlier Horkheimer works discussed in this book. — connects to: Adorno equated the Kantian intelligible character with a fleeting impulse-driven moral consciousness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2566; Adorno’s historical defense of typologies fails to justify classifying the genuinely autonomous — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 682; Adorno defended typologies because capitalism had destroyed authentic individualism for most people — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 681

Broader Connections

• Adorno defended typologies because capitalism had destroyed authentic individualism for most people #responds-to (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 681
• Adorno’s historical defense of typologies fails to justify classifying the genuinely autonomous #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 682