Isolation of particulars is itself a product of the universal order

Evidence

Dialectical thought opposes reification in the further sense that it refuses to affirm individual things in their isolation and separateness: it designates isolation as precisely a product of the universal. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 84

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: A key move of Adorno’s negative dialectic — reification refused by tracing isolation back to its social production.

Broader Connections

• Inclusive universal claims arise from within the particular #corroborates (0.92)