Adorno faulted Heidegger for staying trapped in traditional metaphysics

Evidence

Adorno’s analysis of Heidegger can be summed up as follows: behind his ontology there stood, objectively, his interest in a thinking qualitatively different from science, from the philosophy of science and from logic, one that went to what was essential, that broke free of immanent consciousness. Ignoring not only the sciences but the whole of the Western tradition since Plato caused Heidegger to remain too caught up in traditional metaphysics, from which only self-reflection could bring release. Concrete philosophy, according to Adorno, would be complete, unreduced experience in the medium of conceptual reflection'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2513</cite> (#contradicts`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno held that ignoring Western tradition kept Heidegger trapped in metaphysics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2513; Heidegger’s life-world analysis paralleled the metaphysical diagnoses of his era — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 405

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• Adorno held that ignoring Western tradition kept Heidegger trapped in metaphysics (similarity 0.95)
• Adorno valued Heidegger’s urge to reach essential matters over method (similarity 0.89)
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• Adorno kept sympathy for Heidegger’s drive to essential things (similarity 0.85)
• Adorno and Heidegger shared critiques of positivism, idealism, and autonomous philosophy. (similarity 0.83)
• Heidegger’s life-world analysis paralleled the metaphysical diagnoses of his era (similarity 0.83)
• Adorno saw philosophy as unable to grasp totality yet kept it over social theory (similarity 0.82)
• Adorno saw Heidegger’s false trails as akin to his own thought (similarity 0.82)
• Adorno treated philosophy as an independent instrument of discovery rather than applied science (similarity 0.82)
• Adorno held that post-idealist social theory degrades philosophy’s concepts into obscurantist tools. (similarity 0.81)
• Horkheimer and Adorno never shared one unified school paradigm (similarity 0.81)
• Adorno chose Husserl over Heidegger precisely because successors built on the fragile foundation (similarity 0.81)
• Adorno judged Heidegger’s Hegel reading as rigorously dialectical despite its ontology errors (similarity 0.80)
• Horkheimer and Adorno each deployed Hegelian dialectics toward different ends (similarity 0.80)
• Adorno attacked positivism for severing logic from the world and knowledge from subjects. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Adorno held that ignoring Western tradition kept Heidegger trapped in metaphysics #contradicts (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2513