Adorno valued Bloch’s philosophy for resisting method’s resignation.

Evidence

The dark brown book, four hundred pages long, printed on heavy paper, promised something of what one had hoped for from medieval books and of what I sensed as a child in the pigskin-bound Heldenschatz, a late work on magic from the eighteenth century … It was a philosophy which could stand shoulder to shoulder with the most advanced literature, which had not been schooled into the despicable resignation of method. Ideas like `the inward journey’ [Abfahrt nach innen], which lay on the narrow boundary between a magic formula and a theoretical proposition, were evidence of this. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 264

Categorization

• XREF: Adorno’s later critique of systematic method and his aphoristic, essayistic style read as outgrowths of this early Bloch encounter. — connects to: Bloch’s Utopian Spirit offered Adorno a magic-inflected philosophy beyond method — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 264; Adorno’s micrological-Messianic thought linked him to Benjamin, Kracauer, and Bloch — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 12
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 264

Broader Connections

• Bloch’s Utopian Spirit offered Adorno a magic-inflected philosophy beyond method #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 264