According to Adorno, each artwork has its own import (Gehalt) by virtue of an internal dialectic between content (Inhalt) and form (Form).
Following Aristotle (Meteorology 389b31), and also Augustine's On Dialectic, logicians were content to accept that if I point to a corpse and say "This is a man" or "This is Peter," then 'man' and 'Peter' are being used equivocally, in some different or extended sense.
As such, the speech has a relationship to the reality, which can be characterized by a dialectic structure between sense (content) and significance (presumption of truthfulness) (see Ricoeur 1974: 28).
Hegel called this evolution "the dialectical process" (see dialectic).
Jackson seems to grasp that in the white-managed, black-content-provided N.B.A., the dialectic between coaches and players shouldn't replicate the punitive patriarchy of the 400-year-old American race war; the conversation has to find a new groove.
This is not the place to set forth a complete system of the forms or categories of the mind in their order and their dialectic; confining ourselves to art, we must be content to say that the category of art, like every other category, mutually presupposes and is presupposed by all the rest: it is conditioned by them all and conditions them all.
Instead, he contends that Marx is guilty of committing the same error as Hegel in mistaking historical content for the fulfillment of the dialectic.
Roman law, though traditional in content, was also deeply influenced by Greek dialectic.
Even if their specific historical story of the emergence of Enlightenment reason out of myth is no longer so convincing, it is not enough to say with Habermas that The Dialectic of Enlightenment did not "do justice to the rational content of cultural modernity" (Habermas 1987, 103).
Not content merely to change philosophy, Hegel also used this dialectic to expose the persistent archaism of modern life itself, Cole shows, establishing a method of social analysis that has influenced everyone from Marx and the nineteenth-century Hegelians, to Nietzsche and Bakhtin, all the way to Deleuze and Jameson.
