Adorno saw personal experience as a valid basis for philosophy after Auschwitz

Evidence

Life after Auschwitzfor Adorno, this topic became an argument for the fact that it was still possible to philosophize about essential matters from one’s own experience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2577

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s famous ‘writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ remark and the broader debate on philosophy’s legitimacy after the Holocaust. — connects to: Post-Auschwitz metaphysics was forced to confront material bodily existence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2572; Adorno recovered theological motifs materialistically for post-Auschwitz metaphysics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2569; Adorno reconceived philosophy as the teaching of the correct life rather than epistemology — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 835

Broader Connections

• Adorno reconceived philosophy as the teaching of the correct life rather than epistemology #expands (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 835