Positive object precedence requires a freely differentiating subject that yields to the object

Evidence

Wherever there was a predominance of the object in the positive sense, there would also be a surplus of subject'. The object must be conceived without the subject. But one could only speak of a precedence of the object in an emphatic sense where there was a subject that had the freedom of differentiated perception, where a differentiatedly perceiving subject concerned itself with the object as a matter neither of concession nor of necessity, neither obsequiously nor deceitfully. Instead, the subject must yield to the object’ and make itself an organ capable of blending the `faculty of mimetic reaction’ with conceptual discipline. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2549

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how Adorno reconciles subject and object: the subject’s free differentiation is the condition for the object’s emphatic precedence.
• XREF: connects to: An order counts as an imperative only by combining free assumption with preserved exteriority — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1239; Subjectivity is asymmetrically dependent on objectivity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2543

Broader Connections

• An order counts as an imperative only by combining free assumption with preserved exteriority #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1239
• Subjectivity is asymmetrically dependent on objectivity #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2543