Adorno kept sympathy for Heidegger’s drive to essential things

Evidence

Unlike Habermas, however, Adorno still had some sympathy for a mode of thought which, independent of the academic system, and regardless of the shackles of scientific method, was attempting to push forward to the matters that were most important. He saw this impulse, no matter how distorted, as still surviving in the later, ontological Heidegger, just as Horkheimer had observed it in his essays of the 1930s. … Surviving in the ontological need is some remembrance of this greatest virtue [i.e. the presumption of wanting to see to the heart of things], which critical philosophy did not so much forget as zealously eliminate in honor of the science it sought to establish a remembrance of the will not to let thoughts be robbed of that for the sake of which men think them. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2505

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the chapter 80 claim that Adorno valued science’s importance but rejected its cognitive methods entirely. — connects to: Adorno valued Heidegger’s urge to reach essential matters over method — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505

Broader Connections

• Adorno valued Heidegger’s urge to reach essential matters over method #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2505