Adorno saw himself as a theologian-inspired thinker driven to burst open and rescue objects.

Evidence

With such an allegorical philosophy, it was merely a matter of consistency for Adorno to see himself as a thinker inspired by theology. This conception gave Adorno the energy needed to tackle everything possible in a way that would burst it open' and rescue’ it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 208

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures Adorno’s self-conception as a theologically inspired thinker, a core framing for his method.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s immanent critique drove him to a parenthetical theology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2153; Adorno aimed to make subjects receptive to the rationality of objects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2260; Adorno’s theory aimed to grasp the whole to recover what it suppressed — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2389 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s immanent critique drove him to a parenthetical theology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2153; Adorno aimed to make subjects receptive to the rationality of objects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2260; Adorno’s theory aimed to grasp the whole to recover what it suppressed — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2389 (+5 more)