Recognizing the object as Other is the only durable answer to reification

Evidence

Hypostatizations would never succeed in the long term, and the only reasonable solution must therefore be to recognize and accept the object, the Other, the alien: this was the conclusion of Negative Dialectics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 636

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Knowing assimilates its object without destroying its in-itself structure — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1353; The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity; The Other-as-object reinforces the world’s objectivity while the Other-as-look dissolves it (+2 more)
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Knowing assimilates its object without destroying its in-itself structure — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1353; The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity; The Other-as-object reinforces the world’s objectivity while the Other-as-look dissolves it (+2 more)

Broader Connections