Adorno retained sympathy for pre-academic metaphysics even in Heidegger’s ontology.

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. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 626

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Adorno’s stubborn fidelity to a pre-scientific impulse toward the matters that matter most, even in Heidegger, says something irreducible about Critical Theory’s relation to philosophy.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno privately identified his own critical project with Heidegger’s devotion to false trails. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 626; Adorno kept sympathy for Heidegger’s drive to essential things — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505; Adorno saw Heidegger’s false trails as akin to his own thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2503 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno privately identified his own critical project with Heidegger’s devotion to false trails. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 626; Adorno kept sympathy for Heidegger’s drive to essential things — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505; Adorno saw Heidegger’s false trails as akin to his own thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2503 (+2 more)