Adorno held that ignoring Western tradition kept Heidegger trapped in 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’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2513

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Adorno’s notion of ‘concrete philosophy’ as ‘complete, unreduced experience in the medium of conceptual reflection’.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Critical Theory project and Adorno’s Negative Dialectics, which begins with the immanent critique of Heidegger described here. — connects to: Adorno faulted Heidegger for staying trapped in traditional metaphysics; Adorno valued Heidegger’s urge to reach essential matters over method — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505; Adorno read Heidegger as expressing dialectical structures undialectically — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2510 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno read Heidegger as expressing dialectical structures undialectically #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2510