Dialectical insight transmutes contingency into necessity in a fleeting unified glimpse.

Evidence

The very grandeur of logical deductions may inadvertently take on a provincial quality. Benjamin’s writings are an attempt in ever new ways to make philosophically fruitful what has not yet been foreclosed by great intentions. The task he bequeathed was not to abandon such an attempt to the estranging enigmas of thought alone, but to bring the intentionless within the realm of concepts: the obligation to think at the same time dialectically and undialectically. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 170 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Historical necessity is a feeling produced by dialectical understanding, not an ontological determinism. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 709; Dialectical thought is inherently comparative across heterogeneous operations — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 103; Thinking must hold dialectic and its opposite together at once — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 170 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Thinking must hold dialectic and its opposite together at once #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 170