Adorno’s free essayistic thought was meant to become empirical knowledge

Evidence

It was a utopia, however, which was to be translated into an empirical form of knowledge that would be able to exploit the successful discoveries of organized science in all their breadth and at the same time provide science with fresh horizons to produce more specific, and at the same time more cautious, discoveries and applications. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 565

Categorization

• XREF: Ties directly to the Habermas arrival and the Institute’s turn to empirical social research in the following sentences. — connects to: Adorno saw psychoanalysis as an empirical science completing transcendental philosophy; For Adorno, the essay was the very form of free thought. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 564; Adorno’s essayistic free thought was a utopia that avoided empirical engagement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2287 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno saw psychoanalysis as an empirical science completing transcendental philosophy; For Adorno, the essay was the very form of free thought. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 564; Adorno’s essayistic free thought was a utopia that avoided empirical engagement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2287 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s aesthetic theory valued sudden transformation over the empirical concerns of his subjects #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1024
• Adorno chose substantive philosophy over a material theory of society #complicates (0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2528
• Adorno treated philosophy as an independent instrument of discovery rather than applied science #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2508