Sentence examples for negative dialectics from inspiring English sources

Instead, the "negative" in "negative dialectics" really kicked into gear.

The retraction, contained in his book "Negative Dialectics," was first published in 1966, not 1973.

Well before Adorno's 1966 book of that name, the group was engaged in negative dialectics.

Theodor Adorno opens his treatise on negative dialectics with the statement that "[it] is a phrase that flouts tradition.

Little wonder, given the history of the 20th century, that the Frankfurt school gave us intellectual pessimism and negative dialectics.

Negative dialectics are, in the end then, open dialectics conditioned by contingent events and not by a pre-given endpoint.

Trapped within his negative dialectic, beauty was a suspect concept.

Like Benjamin, they conducted a negative dialectic, stripping away the fakery of revivalist styles.

Benjamin's negative dialectic provides the tools for subjecting buildings to closer interrogation.

From the philosopher Theodor Adorno, he acquired the skills of "negative dialectic," a rejection of the classical idea that the process of negation should lead to positive conclusions.

Later followers of Shankara, such as Shriharsha in his Khandanakhandakhadya and his commentator Chitsukha, used a destructive, negative dialectic in the manner of Nagarjuna to criticize humanity's basic concepts about the world.