Freeing from particularity requires dwelling with the concrete instead of abstract negation

Evidence

Dwelling on – lingering with – the concrete is an inextinguishable aspect of anything that frees itself from particularity. At the same time, that moment of emancipation showsthespecificityof particularitytobejustaslimitedastheblinddomination of a totality that does not respect particularity. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1558

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the dialectical relation between concrete dwelling and emancipation from particularity in Adorno’s thought.
• XREF: connects to: Expectation constitutes real absence while gratuitous negation stays merely abstract; An order counts as an imperative only by combining free assumption with preserved exteriority — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1239; Subject and object letting-go of fixed positions liberates previously imprisoned philosophical energy (+2 more)