Adorno fused Hegelian determinate negation with Horkheimer’s Jewish monotheism to justify Critical Theory.

Evidence

The Dialectic of Enlightenment only shows that Adorno’s strategy of presenting a hidden theology won through, and that his way of dealing with the problem of how to justify Critical Theory stiffened into a formula in which Hegel’s concept of determinate negation merged with Horkheimer’s formulation of the substance of Jewish monotheism, given prominence at the end of The Jews and Europe'. 136 When Horkheimer, in the Eclipse of Reason and in his inaugural lecture as rector, subsequently contrasted the dominant subjective reason’ with `objective reason’, but without himself clearly laying any claim to possess objective reason, he was avoiding the problem. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 534

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies the exact intellectual fusion (determinate negation plus the substance of Jewish monotheism) that hardened into Critical Theory’s justification formula.
• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School volume’s handling of the ban on images and of ‘The Jews and Europe’ as a text. — connects to: Horkheimer approved Adorno’s thesis despite openly disagreeing with its theology.; Adorno and Horkheimer came to identify their own project with Judaism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 364; Horkheimer and Adorno each deployed Hegelian dialectics toward different ends — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 767 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer approved Adorno’s thesis despite openly disagreeing with its theology.; Adorno and Horkheimer came to identify their own project with Judaism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 364; Horkheimer and Adorno each deployed Hegelian dialectics toward different ends — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 767 (+7 more)