Dialectics advances by entering an opponent’s strengths, not by refuting weakness

Evidence

Dialectics, for Adorno, thus meant, as Hegel had presented it in his Logic, to enter into one’s opponent’s strengths and, by sharpening up the blunted differentiations between distinct things to make his standpoint move, by itself, towards contradiction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 209

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines dialectic as immanent critique: sharpening distinctions until the opposing position contradicts itself.
• XREF: Connects to later chapter material on immanent critique and the non-identical in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics. — connects to: Dialectics works by letting an opponent’s standpoint move itself to contradiction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 766; The dialectical sentence gains strength as the realities it links grow more distant — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dialectics works by letting an opponent’s standpoint move itself to contradiction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 766; The dialectical sentence gains strength as the realities it links grow more distant — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115