Dialectical reason rejects supplementing professional science with metaphysics, reconstructing reality from related concepts instead.
Evidence
Instead of accepting the legitimate analyses and abstractions of professional science while turning to metaphysics and religion for an understanding of concrete reality, it tries to place the analytically achieved concepts in relation to one another and reconstruct reality through them. These and all the other characteristics of dialectical reason correspond to the form of a complicated reality, constantly changing in all its details. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 199
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Rejects both positivist fragmentation and metaphysical escape in one move — the distinctive third position of Critical Theory, worth sitting with.
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s notes on the positivist dispute and on Adorno’s later critique of both positivism and ontology. — connects to: Dialectics sought a critique of science that absorbs metaphysics’ corrections without rejecting science — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 198; Negative Dialectics positioned itself against both the philosophy of science and traditional epistemology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 643; Dialectical logic cannot be formal because reality itself is concrete. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 532 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dialectics sought a critique of science that absorbs metaphysics’ corrections without rejecting science — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 198; Negative Dialectics positioned itself against both the philosophy of science and traditional epistemology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 643; Dialectical logic cannot be formal because reality itself is concrete. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 532 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Horkheimer’s lifelong dialectics project opposed both scientism and irrationalist metaphysics
#corroborates(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 726