Adorno defined philosophy’s task as extending the subject’s receptivity to objects.

Evidence

Adorno’s approach in philosophy was similar to that of his writings on sociology, music and literature. He was concerned to produce a philosophy that would increase the rationality of the perceiving subject and make the subject sensitive to the structure of objectsa philosophy for which to increase rationality meant to be receptive to the rationality of objects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 558

Categorization

• DEFINE: States Adorno’s positive conception of rationality as receptivity rather than domination, the seed of the later non-identical.
• XREF: Connects to the Instrumental Reason discussion and the artwork’s rationality-of-objects motif. — connects to: Adorno saw himself as a theologian-inspired thinker driven to burst open and rescue objects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 208; Adorno aimed to make subjects receptive to the rationality of objects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2260; Adorno sought an open dialectic of subject and object, not a materialist one — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 562
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno saw himself as a theologian-inspired thinker driven to burst open and rescue objects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 208; Adorno aimed to make subjects receptive to the rationality of objects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2260; Adorno sought an open dialectic of subject and object, not a materialist one — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 562

Broader Connections

• Adorno aimed to make subjects receptive to the rationality of objects #expands (0.93) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2260