Team-produced common awareness erases the objective insight available to individuals.
Evidence
These vanish in the process of abstraction that leads several individuals to formulate a common awareness that has had all their specific differences cut away from it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 521
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies what Adorno means by ‘streamlining’ in social science teamwork — abstraction as subtraction of specific differences, not generalisation as enrichment.
- XREF: connects to: Institutionalized teamwork destroys the personal insight that originally motivated a study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 521; Collective psyches cannot develop self-awareness, so institutions stay morally blind
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institutionalized teamwork destroys the personal insight that originally motivated a study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 521; Collective psyches cannot develop self-awareness, so institutions stay morally blind