Adorno held that dialectics must discern the new within the old.

Evidence

By seeking the immutable, Husserl implicitly accepted the reality of the current “administered world.” 124 Husserl, Adorno wrote, was “the most static thinker of his period.” 125 It was not enough to look for the permanent within the transient, or the archaic within the present. A true dialectics, Adorno argued, was “the attempt to see the new in the old instead of simply the old in the new.” 126 Although Husserl had tried to puncture the reified world by means of his reductive method based on intuition (Wesensschau), he had failed. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 265

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Partial, deformed truths within society remain genuine truths for Adorno. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 814

Broader Connections

• Partial, deformed truths within society remain genuine truths for Adorno. #expands (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 814