Horkheimer and Adorno each deployed Hegelian dialectics toward different ends

Evidence

Their proximity to Hegelian dialectics was a link between Adorno and Horkheimer, even though different aspects and applications of this dialectics took precedence for each of them. For Horkheimer, dialectics in the first place meant thinking in relative totalities, and served a critical theory of the sciences as evidence that an alternative to the narrow-mindedness of the various scientific disciplines and metaphysics existed. For Adorno, dialectics meant the possibility of demythologizing and demystifying a broad spectrum of current phenomena. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 767

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 767
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno’s collaboration required assimilating their differing materialisms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662; Horkheimer and Adorno anchored their critique of reason in different ideals — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1308; Horkheimer’s materialist dialectic came close to Hegel’s idealist determinism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 744

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno anchored their critique of reason in different ideals #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1308