Adorno saw ontology and positivism as complementary variants of the same objectivism.

Evidence

Adorno was thus identifying a phenomenon in the realm of music that corresponded to the phenomenon he perceived in philosophy and sociology: ontology and positivism, ideological speculation and positivist empiricism, complemented one another and represented variants of an objectivism that was busily kicking what was already down: the subject, the individual. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2192

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s broader critique that apparently opposed philosophical positions — metaphysics and positivism — collude in eliminating the subject, echoing the reader’s standing concern with institutional/critical theory. — connects to: Adorno attacked positivism for severing logic from the world and knowledge from subjects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2272; Adorno saw Young Music and serialism as complementary objectivisms crushing the subject — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2192; Adorno rejected both positivism and abstract individualism while insisting on nonidentity. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 268

Broader Connections

• Adorno attacked positivism for severing logic from the world and knowledge from subjects. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2272
• Adorno rejected both positivism and abstract individualism while insisting on nonidentity. #expands (0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 268
• Adorno saw Young Music and serialism as complementary objectivisms crushing the subject #exemplifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2192