Husserl’s phenomenology reduced idealism to its most absurd, reductive form.

Evidence

If Hegel, with his cosmological and dialectical philosophy, was the climax of idealism, Husserl’s phenomenology represented the most consistent, most reductive form of his philosophy, in a way an absurd parody of it. As Adorno had already trenchantly stated in his inaugural lecture in 1931, `Husserl has purified idealism of every trace of speculative excess and advanced it to the highest measure of reality it can achieve.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2273

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Husserl’s phenomenology was an absurd parody of Hegel’s idealism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2273; Husserl’s noema doctrine reduces being to appearing, a form of Berkeleyan idealism.; The epoché’s suspension of reality questions made Husserl’s phenomenology veer toward idealism — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 162 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Husserl’s noema doctrine reduces being to appearing, a form of Berkeleyan idealism. #corroborates (0.85)
• The epoché’s suspension of reality questions made Husserl’s phenomenology veer toward idealism #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 162
• Husserl betrays his own insight by making the noema a mental correlate #corroborates (0.75)
• Adorno and Horkheimer criticized Husserl’s phenomenology for denying mediation #qualifies (0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 263