Drawing on economic detail rather than production tendencies raises evidentiary stakes

Evidence

When Horkheimer went to Europe in the winter, what he and Benjamin would have to discuss first and foremost was the special responsibility required by the peculiarities and advantages of Benjamin’s method. `You draw upon the economic element, not so much in the form taken by the process of production and its general tendencies, as in specific details. These must therefore be particularly revealing and significant.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 215

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s Frankfurt School material on Adorno supervising Benjamin’s fusion of theology with historical materialism. — connects to: Prior experiments determine which economic facts even become available and plausible — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1986; Experimental findings in economics circulate and reinforce the facts of the field — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1980; Concrete historical and economic detail is what distinguishes theory from speculation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 338
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Prior experiments determine which economic facts even become available and plausible — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1986; Experimental findings in economics circulate and reinforce the facts of the field — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1980; Concrete historical and economic detail is what distinguishes theory from speculation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 338