Negative dialectics preserves undefined experience as a counterweight to philosophies of science

Evidence

The concept of negative dialectics merely kept alive an insistence on undefined experience in the face of the various philosophies of science, and indicated the direction this insistence should take by means of a negative concept: the non-identical'the meaning of which hovered between the two poles secret’ and `it should be individuality’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2578

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely clarifies what ‘negative dialectics’ and ‘the non-identical’ actually function as in Adorno’s system.
• XREF: The non-identical contrasts with Hegel’s identity-thinking and ties to the Frankfurt School’s resistance to scientific positivism. — connects to: Dialectical thought is self-reflexive thinking about thinking, unlike scientific objectivity — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 103; Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2534; Negative dialectics rejects systematic progression in favor of releasing the non-identical — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2545 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2578

Broader Connections

• Closed dialectics reduce all experience to rational determinations shaped by extrasocial forces #corroborates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 157
• Positivist philosophy imposes an empirical a priori that cannot be transcended #corroborates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 671
• Denying metaphysics in favor of science is itself a metaphysical position #corroborates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 294
• Adorno framed Negative Dialectics as philosophy extending itself from within #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2520