Interpretation and transformation of reality are dialectically inseparable, not conceptually opposed.
Evidence
The interpretation of given reality and its abolition are connected to each other, not, of course, in the sense that reality is negated by the concept, but that out of the construction of a configuration of reality the demand for its real change always follows promptly. The [changing] gesture of the [game of the riddle] – not its mere resolution as such – provides the [archetype] of resolutions to which materialist praxis alone has access. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 200
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the Adornian dialectic as the unity of interpretation and abolition of reality — a core contested term for the ‘critique of political economy’ reading.
- XREF: Directly connects to Adorno’s theory of the riddle-gesture and to the Marx 11th thesis on Feuerbach being re-grounded in philosophical theory. — connects to: Dialogue and action are inseparable, not sequential stages. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 606; Dialectics attend to what is not immediately visible, whereas immediacy erases contradiction — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 326
Broader Connections
- Dialectics attend to what is not immediately visible, whereas immediacy erases contradiction
#expands(0.82) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 326 - Dialogue and action are inseparable, not sequential stages.
#epitomizes(0.78) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 606