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Traditional philosophy's claim to totality, culminating in the thesis that the real is rational, is indistinguishable from apologetics.
Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy? (1963)
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy? (1963)
Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.
The logical figure of the absurd, which presents as stringent the contradictory opposite of stringency, negates all the meaningfulness logic seems to provide in order to convict logic of its own absurdity: to convict it of using subject, predicate, and copula to lay out the nonidentical as though it were identical, as though it could be accommodated with forms.
Can One Live After Auschwitz? (2003)
The conflicts that tear society apart resemble the distinction between the concept and the particular facts subordinated to it. ... Whatever refuses to abide by the unity imposed by the principle of dominion manifests itself not as something indifferent to that principle, but as an infringement of logic: as a contradiction.
Lectures on Negative Dialectics (1965)