The dialectical pun links each formal concept to its originating historical reality

Evidence

Yet such “wordplay,” inadmissible as it may seem to the older analytical type of logical reasoning, is the very essence of the dialectical method itself: as a scandal for static rationality, its inner movement dramatizes the irresistible link between a formal concept and that historical reality in which it originated. Thus, the abstract idea of style in general retains traces of that concrete historical phenomenon of style in modern times which it was first designed to express; and it is because style is a historical phenomenon that an absolute science of style is impossible. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘dialectical pun’ as method echoes Benjamin’s and Adorno’s wordplay-as-critique practice. — connects to: Dialectical thinking is thought to the second power inscribed in the sentence itself — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115; Dialectical thought inverts Aristotle’s artisanal model of form as starting point — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 672; Dialectical analysis begins by isolating key factors from the historical continuum (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Formal concepts retain traces of the historical phenomena that produced them #corroborates (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679
• Dialectical analysis begins by isolating key factors from the historical continuum #expands (0.80)
• Dialectical thought is essentially the elaboration of dialectical sentences #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 16