Adorno privately identified his own critical project with Heidegger’s devotion to false trails.

Evidence

When Adorno was in Frankfurt again in 1949, he had tried to encourage Horkheimer to write a review for the journal Der Monat of Heidegger’s Holzwege, which had just been published. He had been giving much thought to Heidegger, and had written to Horkheimer, enclosing some of his notes, that Heidegger was `in favour of false trails [Holzwege], in a way that’s not very different from our own’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 626

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Adorno’s self-identification with Heidegger’s ‘Holzwege’ — that his own thinking is on false trails ‘not very different from our own’ — reorients how one reads the entire Adorno-Heidegger antagonism, from opposition to half-buried kinship.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno saw Heidegger’s false trails as akin to his own thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2503; Adorno kept sympathy for Heidegger’s drive to essential things — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505; Adorno valued Heidegger’s urge to reach essential matters over method — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno saw Heidegger’s false trails as akin to his own thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2503; Adorno kept sympathy for Heidegger’s drive to essential things — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505; Adorno valued Heidegger’s urge to reach essential matters over method — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno saw Heidegger’s false trails as akin to his own thought #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2503
• Adorno tried to defeat Heidegger’s ontology by immanent critique from within. #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 627