Identity logic grounded in exchange society constrains the thinking subject

Evidence

It is the law of identity which establishes the norms for all thought and action in developed exchange society. The very rationality which this identity embodies, ‘unconscious like the transcendental subject and establishing identity by [exchange], remains incommensurable with the subjects it reduces to the same denominator: the subject as the subject’s foe’. Consequently, Adorno defines theory as critical self-reflection on the part of the subject, without which it suffers from a ‘constriction of … abundance’ of mental experience. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1227

Categorization

• XREF: Core of the Adorno-critique-of-political-economy link: identity thinking traced to exchange abstraction, tying Adorno to Marx’s value-form analysis. — connects to: Losing the fact-potential distinction makes thought submit to existing society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 40; Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange; Personal identity theory parallels the language of property and ownership — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 444 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: Worth pursuing how exchange-abstraction identity-thesis maps onto Sohn-Rethel’s and back onto Capital’s commodity-form chapter.

Broader Connections

• Losing the fact-potential distinction makes thought submit to existing society #expands (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 40
• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #expands (0.75)
• Colonial identity functions as a style shaping reality language and thought #exemplifies (0.75)
• Personal identity theory parallels the language of property and ownership #expands (0.73) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 444