 Adorno attacks Hegel from two directions.  First Adorno is simply skeptical that fascism and the Holocaust can be part of any upward historical trend (55–6).  Second, he points to a tension in Hegel's own thought.  He notes that, in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel advises “tarrying with the negative” (1807, §32), which means giving the negative moments in history a full dose of philosophical attention.  However, Adorno says, in practice Hegel often moves past human evils and individual fates in a cursory fashion (1951, 16–17), hurrying toward the stage of reconcilation.  Adorno proposes a new method of examining history for meaning, exemplified by Minima Moralia, that dwells on individual experience and catastrophe.  Theoretically, Adorno reverses Hegel, asserting “the whole is the false” (Adorno 1951, 50). 