Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination

Evidence

According to the preface, negative dialectics attempts by means of logical consistency to substitute for the unity principle, and for the paramountcy of the supraordinated concept, the idea of what would be outside the sway of such unity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2534

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures Adorno’s own definition of the ‘non-identical’ as the aim of negative dialectics.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2534
• XREF: connects to: Dialectical criticism replaces linear narrative with a construct built from internally generative stylistic moments — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 112; Negative dialectics theorizes why dialectical thinking is both indispensable and impossible; A negative dialectic must affirm synthesis while negating it in every concrete case — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 119 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Negative dialectics rejects systematic progression in favor of releasing the non-identical #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2545
• Negative dialectics preserves undefined experience as a counterweight to philosophies of science #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2578
• Subjectivity and objectivity form a dialectical unity in knowledge #contradicts (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 83
• Closed dialectics reduce all experience to rational determinations shaped by extrasocial forces #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 157