Adorno aimed to dialecticize Husserl’s philosophy from within.

Evidence

You’ll have received the Negative Dialectics, that fat child, in the meantime, and of course I’m extremely excited to hear your reactionthough I wouldn’t want to pressure you into reading it faster than you or I would normally read this sort of thing. I hope you won’t see it as a reversion to philosophy. It was intended, rather, as an attempt to extend (to put it mildly) the traditional concept of the philosophical problematic from within itself … The only controversial aspect of it might be whether it was necessary to go into the so-called specialized philosophical field to do this; but this is just my passion for immanent criticismit is not merely a passionand may be justified to some extent in the book. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2520 (#expands, via linked claim)

In Adorno’s opinion, Husserl had not succeeded in breaking out of idealism, out of the philosophy of consciousness which saw consciousness as being capable of grasping the totality of the world. Husserl had, however, to a certain extent opened idealism to attack by taking it to self-destructive extremes. Lukács had demonstrated the antinomies of bourgeois thought in his essay on Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat', and used them to arrive at the embodiment of the proletariat's self-knowledge in Marxist theory; similarly, Adorno wanted to present the phenomenological antinomies that plainly appeared in the plethora of paradoxical constructs and conceptual links in Husserl, and use them to arrive at materialist dialectics, as he understood it, as the solution to them. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2268</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

With Lukács, Kracauer and Blochnone of them academicsAdorno was not able to make very much progress at the University of Frankfurt. As he was a precocious young man, his contempt for the academic world was all the greater. In 1924 he took his doctorate with Cornelius, with a dissertation on The Transcendence of the Material and Noematic in Husserl’s Phenomenology. In the middle of May', he wrote to Leo Lowenthal in July 1924, I planned my dissertation, and on the 26th I reported the substance of its ideas to Cornelius, who accepted it. I finished it on 6 June, dictated it on the 11th, and handed it in on the 14th.’ The task which he had set himself was to resolve the contradiction between the transcendental idealist and the transcendental realist components of Husserl’s theory of the object (Ding). He did this by declaring it to be a false problem from the point of view of Cornelius’s pure immanent philosophy'. This considered the thing to be simultaneously ideal and empirical by taking it to be a law-governed interrelation of appearances, subject to correction by experience and constituted by the unity of personal consciousness. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno framed Negative Dialectics as philosophy extending itself from within — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2520; Adorno read Husserl’s paradoxes as evidence for materialist dialectics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2268; Adorno renounced Husserl’s object theory via Cornelius’s pure immanent philosophy — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 276

Broader Connections

• Adorno framed Negative Dialectics as philosophy extending itself from within #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2520
• Adorno read Husserl’s paradoxes as evidence for materialist dialectics #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2268
• Adorno renounced Husserl’s object theory via Cornelius’s pure immanent philosophy #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276