Dialectics works by letting an opponent’s standpoint move itself to contradiction

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. One of the sentences which inspired Adorno most was a remark by the Left-Hegelian Marx in the Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right' that these petrified conditions must be made to dance by having their own tune sung to them!’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 766

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise statement of immanent critique: enter the opponent’s strengths and let the standpoint collapse into contradiction on its own.
• XREF: connects to: Skeptical dialectic shows equal necessity for contradictory determinations, yielding nullity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1122; Letting-go of one-sidedness is itself the renunciation that began the dialectic — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1089; Freedom from tonality dialectically generates its own stricter new law — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 76 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Skeptical dialectic shows equal necessity for contradictory determinations, yielding nullity #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1122
• Letting-go of one-sidedness is itself the renunciation that began the dialectic #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1089