Adorno attacked positivism for severing logic from the world and knowledge from subjects.
Evidence
The same points of attack were crucial for Adorno in the critique of logical positivism: the dissociation of logic from the existing world`the logic of toy money’ was his label for thisand the dissociation of knowledge from thinking individualshere the label he used was subjectless, i.e. non-human, experience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2272
Categorization
- DEFINE: Adorno’s shorthand labels ‘logic of toy money’ and ‘subjectless experience’ are precise conceptual tools worth keeping for reference.
- XREF: connects to: Logical positivism functioned regressively by abandoning reason’s constructive power over nature and society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 749; Adorno held that post-idealist social theory degrades philosophy’s concepts into obscurantist tools. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1928; Adorno saw ontology and positivism as complementary variants of the same objectivism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2192 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno rejected both positivism and abstract individualism while insisting on nonidentity.
#expands(0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 268 - Adorno and Heidegger shared critiques of positivism, idealism, and autonomous philosophy.
#expands(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2316 - Adorno saw formal logic as a social artifact mirroring commodity exchange.
#expands(0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 266 - Adorno rejected Benjamin’s philological method as trapped between magic and positivism.
#expands(0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 620