Denying the mediatedness of subject and object produces self-absolutizing consciousness

Evidence

This was the only path still open, in Adorno’s view, since Husserl’s philosophy proved that, if the mediatedness of subject and object was not recognized, then, instead of the `things themselves’ and the living fulfilment of subjects, only the projections of a self-absolutizing consciousness would appear. For the same reason, Husserl’s drafts for an ontology were untenable projections of a subject that was absolutizing itself, and was thus alienated both from itself and from the world. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 562

Categorization

• DEFINE: Mediatedness of subject and object is the pivotal concept: its denial is what converts phenomenology into projection.