Adorno’s 1931 inaugural lecture grounded philosophy in the sciences without abstraction.

Evidence

What he then presented was a variant of Benjamin’s critique of epistemology in the preface to the book on the Trauerspiel. Whereas that had been done up as a theory of ideas', Adorno's theory was now presented as materialist and related to science. Philosophy will be able to draw an abundance of material, and new ways of concretizing problems, from the current status of the various scientific disciplines alone. It will not, however, be able to set itself above the scientific disciplines to the extent that it will be able to take their results’ as ready-made and consider them from a safe distance. Rather, philosophical problems alwaysin a certain sense ineluctablylie sealed up within the most specific questions of individual scientific disciplines. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 112

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the later ‘philosophy whose truth lies in the interpretation of the tiniest facts’ and to the Frankfurt method of reading social reality in micro-phenomena. — connects to: Adorno demanded a philosophy both concrete and transcendent to escape bourgeois immanence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno demanded a philosophy both concrete and transcendent to escape bourgeois immanence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211

Broader Connections

• Adorno demanded a philosophy both concrete and transcendent to escape bourgeois immanence #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 211