Adorno renounced Husserl’s object theory via Cornelius’s pure immanent philosophy

Evidence

With Lukács, Kracauer and Blochnone of them academicsAdorno was not able to make very much progress at the University of Frankfurt. As he was a precocious young man, his contempt for the academic world was all the greater. In 1924 he took his doctorate with Cornelius, with a dissertation on The Transcendence of the Material and Noematic in Husserl’s Phenomenology. In the middle of May', he wrote to Leo Lowenthal in July 1924, I planned my dissertation, and on the 26th I reported the substance of its ideas to Cornelius, who accepted it. I finished it on 6 June, dictated it on the 11th, and handed it in on the 14th.’ The task which he had set himself was to resolve the contradiction between the transcendental idealist and the transcendental realist components of Husserl’s theory of the object (Ding). He did this by declaring it to be a false problem from the point of view of Cornelius’s `pure immanent philosophy’. This considered the thing to be simultaneously ideal and empirical by taking it to be a law-governed interrelation of appearances, subject to correction by experience and constituted by the unity of personal consciousness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Adorno’s ‘false problem’ resolution foreshadows the Institute’s later critique of transcendental philosophy as a false choice. — connects to: Adorno’s dissertation rejected Husserl’s idealism for Cornelius’s immanent philosophy — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 276; Adorno read Husserl’s paradoxes as evidence for materialist dialectics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2268; Cornelius’s neo-Kantianism rejected Husserl’s intuition of states of affairs as mystical — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 175
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 276

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s dissertation rejected Husserl’s idealism for Cornelius’s immanent philosophy #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276
• Adorno read Husserl’s paradoxes as evidence for materialist dialectics #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2268