Adorno concluded important matters cannot be approached empirically

Evidence

After nearly two decades in which he had been unwillingly harnessed to empirical social research projects, and had taken part in them with growing, but never unqualified enthusiasm, Adorno had now returned to the standpoint he had taken during his work on the Princeton Radio Research Project; important matters could not be approached empirically. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2119

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the reader’s existing picture of the Frankfurt School’s ambivalent relation to empirical research from earlier chapters on the Princeton Radio Project. — connects to: Adorno judged opinion research inadequate because it misses objective social facts — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1930; Adorno valued science’s importance but rejected its cognitive methods entirely — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2283; Adorno’s neglect of external nature stemmed from scientific self-doubt — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2553 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2119