Reducing all complexity to one formation yields idealization, not knowledge of totality

Evidence

If one does that, one produces not the knowledge of a Totality, which I roo take to be a fundamental cognitive category, but an idealization, either of the Hegelian or the positivist kind. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 473

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Creolized totality is ordered yet free of hierarchy and essence — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 487; Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy; Totalizing approaches a boundary it can never actually cross — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 775 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Totalizing approaches a boundary it can never actually cross #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 775
• Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy #expands (0.80)