Adorno rejected Bloch for elevating hope to a philosophical principle

Evidence

But the relationship between Adorno and Bloch was marked more by contempt than by any sense that they were allies. Bloch saw Adorno as a renegade pupil. Adorno rejected Bloch because of what he saw as his undisciplined, `blustering’ style of philosophizing. He also found unacceptable Bloch’s elevation of hope to the status of a principle, and his concept of reconciliation with nature that included the idea of a natura naturans, unreflected nature, with subjective status. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 610

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School volume’s treatment of Bloch’s utopian-Marxist hope against Adorno’s negative dialectics. — connects to: Adorno prized Bloch’s Utopian Spirit for fusing philosophy with advanced literature; Adorno’s final philosophy denied the achievability of salvation while keeping its standpoint — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 836; Adorno valued Bloch’s philosophy for resisting method’s resignation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 264 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno prized Bloch’s Utopian Spirit for fusing philosophy with advanced literature; Adorno’s final philosophy denied the achievability of salvation while keeping its standpoint — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 836; Adorno valued Bloch’s philosophy for resisting method’s resignation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 264 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno valued Bloch’s philosophy for resisting method’s resignation. #complicates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 264
• Adorno’s final philosophy denied the achievability of salvation while keeping its standpoint #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 836