Dialectical thought is essentially the elaboration of dialectical sentences

Evidence

It is for this reason, I think—because in Germany the dialectic somehow speaks in its own name—that I have ordered these chapters around the sign of Discourse itself: for in the works they deal with, as already in Hegel, dialectical thought turns out to be nothing more or less than the elaboration of dialectical sentences. To give a little of the feeling of this sense of the movement of reality as a logos, I have resorted to the very terminology of linguistic figures themselves, of tropes and rhetoric, in which the operation of dialectical thought is viewed as a process or figure; or to that of a type of presence to and decipherment of experience which may be thought of as a hermeneutical exegesis of a text. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 16

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt-School lineage the reader is tracing — this sentence-level dialectic is exactly how Adorno writes, and is also a methodological clue to Jameson’s own prose style elsewhere. — connects to: Dialectical thinking is thought to the second power inscribed in the sentence itself — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115; Dialectical style requires self-awareness inscribed in the sentence; The dialectical pun links each formal concept to its originating historical reality — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the dialectic as a discursive sentence-elaboration, using rhetoric and tropes as analytic instruments.

Broader Connections

• For Adorno, dialectical thinking requires self-consciousness be inscribed in the sentence structure itself #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115