Negative Dialectics converts theological motifs into a materialist utopia of restored pasts.

Evidence

These ranged, in the `Meditations on Metaphysics’, from the dictum that after Auschwitz all culture is garbage, to a materialist recovery of theological motifs in ideas such as the materialist longing for the resurrection of the body, or the utopia of a world from which not only existing suffering had been removed, but to which things irrevocably past and gone had also been returned. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 641

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the recurring theme in these notes of materialist reworkings of theology, as in Benjamin’s arcades material. — connects to: Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2534; Old religious symbols can be inverted to imagine a transformed society — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 575; Any attempt to realize utopia concretely in practice becomes dissimulative — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1038
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2534; Old religious symbols can be inverted to imagine a transformed society — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 575; Any attempt to realize utopia concretely in practice becomes dissimulative — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1038

Broader Connections

• Any attempt to realize utopia concretely in practice becomes dissimulative #complicates (0.74) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1038