Identity is internally mediated by the non-identical
Evidence
Adorno does not believe that identity should be thought of as a final principle in whose name all contradictions should ultimately be transcended. After all, according to its own concept, identity is itself necessarily mediated by what it is not: by the non-identical: Identity and contradiction of thought are welded together. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1223
Categorization
- XREF: Directly speaks to the revisionist thesis that Adorno’s negative dialectics is not a resigned identity-philosophy. — connects to: Being and non-being tempt us to treat them as equal complementary components; Identity forms through alienation in a reflected image — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 677; The singular is self-identical determinateness posited as whole, or self-identical negativity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1124 (+18 more)
Broader Connections
- Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself
#corroborates(0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378 - Identity is formed through contrast with difference
#corroborates(0.90) - Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness
#corroborates(0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1189 - Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other
#corroborates(0.85) - Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not
#corroborates(0.85) - Identity is a contradictory, multi-discursive, non-closed totality
#expands(0.80) - Identity construction is an exercise of power through exclusion
#expands(0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 371 - Identity is constructed through discourse and dialogic interaction, not self-creation
#qualifies(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 23 - Identity gets constituted when the Other’s gaze names it
#qualifies(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 207