Husserl’s phenomenology was an absurd parody of Hegel’s idealism

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.' Husserl had deprived philosophy of every form of philosophical decoration’. In this `late-bourgeois, fatalistic’ variation on idealism, it seemed to Adorno that breaking out of the tradition lay within reach. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2273

Categorization

• XREF: The phrase ‘late-bourgeois, fatalistic’ idealism connects to earlier claims about Schopenhauerian finitude and Horkheimer’s materialism. — connects to: Husserl’s phenomenology reduced idealism to its most absurd, reductive form. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2273; Husserl sought to destroy idealism using purely idealist instruments. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2263

Broader Connections

• Husserl’s phenomenology reduced idealism to its most absurd, reductive form. #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2273
• Husserl sought to destroy idealism using purely idealist instruments. #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2263