To make Adorno’s difficult notion of “identity thinking” more amendable to sociological research, this project brings his Negative Dialectics into conversation with Schutz’s theory of typification. When revised with Adorno’s attention to political economy and the pathologies of reification, Schutz’s framework allows for an analysis of identity thinking in everyday life. Both theorists argue that categories of thought: (1) automatically subsume objects for pragmatic yet socially conditioned reasons, (2) are socially formed, transferred, and selected, and (3) suppress particularizing characteristics of objects. Their overlapping arguments are cross-fertilized to propose a critical approach to cognitive sociology that can engage in a form of ideology critique that illuminates forms of thinking that conceal social contradictions. This approach is useful for explaining the “mundane dialectic of enlightenment”: the daily reproduction of unreflective rationalization that breeds irrationality in the form of social domination and environmental harm, a contradiction which finds its ultimate expression in climate change inaction.

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启蒙的世俗辩证法：作为日常身份思维的典型化

为了使阿多诺的“身份思维”的困难概念更适合社会学研究，这个项目将他的否定辩证法与舒茨的典型化理论进行了对话。当阿多诺对政治经济学和物化病理学的关注进行修订时，舒茨的框架允许对日常生活中的身份思考进行分析。两位理论家都认为，思想的类别：（1）出于实用但社会条件的原因自动包含对象，（2）是社会形成、转移和选择的，以及（3）抑制对象的特殊化特征。他们重叠的论点相互融合，为认知社会学提出了一种批判方法，这种方法可以参与一种意识形态批判，阐明隐藏社会矛盾的思维形式。