The non-identical can only be approached through concepts without being subsumed

Evidence

Yet insofar as abstraction a conceptual condition of the possibility of rational knowledge – and insofar as the concept itself is a condition thereof – the only viable way to unregulated knowledge is that utopian way of ‘unseal[ing] the non-conceptual with concepts, without making it their equal’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1242

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Adorno’s method of ‘unsealing the non-conceptual with concepts’ as the sole route to unregulated knowledge.
• XREF: connects to: Classification enables thought but does not itself constitute understanding.; Concepts only become effective when incorporated into sensuous existence — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 973; Non-identical thinking requires resisting the identity principle that flattens qualitative difference. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1246 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity is internally mediated by the non-identical #expands (0.90) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1223
• Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness #corroborates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1189
• Some strangeness denies the stranger even general human commonality, making the relation a non-relation #qualifies (0.72) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9648