Critical theory’s borrowed Kantian ideals collapse into sheer experience or bare logic.

Evidence

Horkheimer himself at once considered the objection that the concept of generality used in the second case could at best only be described as being just as bourgeois as any other ideal. There was no concealing the fact that it was derived from Kant, and it could not offer any guidance. And then, at a loss, he added, `That may be so, but then all that will be left is experience, not its expression.’ In that case, logic would really be reason in its purest form. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 533

Categorization

• DEFINE: Locates the impasse between Kantian generality-as-ideal and logic-as-reason in its purest form.
• XREF: connects to: Idealism’s failure to prove the Other’s existence collapses into metaphysical realism.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Idealism’s failure to prove the Other’s existence collapses into metaphysical realism.