Adorno excluded scientific research from the Frankfurt program out of impatience, not principle

Evidence

Interdisciplinary work on the theory of society, in the spirit of a negative dialectics, could only be fruitful. Only impatience and personal inclination could explain the exclusion of scientific research, and the use of the history of philosophy to circumvent social theoryalthough the latter was only partly true in Adorno’s case. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 643

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier account of the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized disciplines, here explained by temperament rather than theory. — connects to: Adorno defended empirical fieldwork while never giving the Institute a rigorous research direction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 474; Adorno’s critique of science never specified which sense of science he targeted. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 627; Adorno rejected empirical research criticism despite its validity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1012 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno defended empirical fieldwork while never giving the Institute a rigorous research direction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 474; Adorno’s critique of science never specified which sense of science he targeted. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 627; Adorno rejected empirical research criticism despite its validity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1012 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno never abandoned the ideal of critical empirical research despite rejecting established methods #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2120
• Adorno rejected empirical research criticism despite its validity #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1012