Adorno wanted kindness and pity suspended, appearing only implicitly like theological motifs

Evidence

Adorno’s criticism of Fromm, which disregarded the relation between psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalytic therapy, was an appeal to Horkheimer to treat categories such as kindness and pity in the way that Adorno himself treated theological motifs: to suspend them and only let them appear implicitly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1110

Categorization

• XREF: The suspension-of-theological-motifs idea connects to Adorno’s insistence in ch29 that the Passagen preserve theological content. — connects to: Adorno demanded the Passagen preserve its theological content against Brechtian atheism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 780; Adorno’s ideal analyst pushes reality to extremes so hope emerges only in darkness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1107; Adorno’s final philosophy denied the achievability of salvation while keeping its standpoint — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 836

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s final philosophy denied the achievability of salvation while keeping its standpoint #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 836