Individual experience regained its epistemic authority after Hegel’s era

Evidence

For this reason, social analysis can learn incomparably more from individual experience than Hegel conceded, while conversely the large historical categories, after all that has meanwhile been perpetrated with their help, are no longer above suspicion of fraud. In the hundred and fifty years since Hegel’s conception was formed, some of the force of protest has reverted to the individual. … In face of the totalitarian unison with which the eradication of difference is proclaimed as a purpose in itself, even part of the social force of liberation may have temporarily withdrawn to the individual sphere. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 12

Categorization

• SEED: A claim that liberation has retreated to the individual sphere offers an essay angle: where protest lives when collectives have been compromised — rereading Minima Moralia as a survival manual for difference under totalitarian unison.
• XREF: Directly foreshadows Adorno’s later insistence that the only remaining refuge of truth is ‘the individual, in his fragmentary existence’ — central to the 1966 lectures on history and freedom. — connects to: Hegel solved modernity’s self-justification problem too completely through Absolute reason — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 264; Elders derive epistemic authority from lived experience and oral transmission in absence of writing; Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1025 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems #exemplifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1025
• Elders derive epistemic authority from lived experience and oral transmission in absence of writing #expands (0.75)
• Phenomenology restores the unnoticed richness of everyday experience #exemplifies (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 147
• Hegel does leave room for contingency within necessity itself #complicates (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 127