Adorno valued Heidegger’s urge to reach essential matters over method

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, 2505

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the Frankfurt School’s ambivalence toward academic-scientific method, as in Horkheimer’s 1930s essays. — connects to: Adorno kept sympathy for Heidegger’s drive to essential things — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2505; Adorno read Heidegger as expressing dialectical structures undialectically — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2510; Adorno held that ignoring Western tradition kept Heidegger trapped in metaphysics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2513 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno read Heidegger as expressing dialectical structures undialectically #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2510
• Adorno held that ignoring Western tradition kept Heidegger trapped in metaphysics #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2513
• Heidegger’s philosophical intensity reflected a threatening inner landscape #corroborates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 192