Theodor Adorno began his book-length critique of Husserl and phenomenology by saying that the dialectic continually breaks through every attempt at a starting point that phenomenology can muster: "The dialectic, which utterly refuses to be committed to the distinction between matter and method. It does not so much oppose phenomenology with a position or "model' external and alien to phenomenology, as it pushes the phenomenological model, with the latter's own force, to where the latter cannot afford to go. Dialectic extracts the truth from it through the confession of its own untruth" (1956:5).