Husserl sought to destroy idealism using purely idealist instruments.

Evidence

It appears to me that Husserl’s philosophy was precisely an attempt to destroy idealism from within, an attempt with the means of consciousness to break through the wall of transcendental analysis, while at the same time trying to carry such an analysis as far as possible … he rebels against idealist thinking while attempting to break through the walls of idealism with purely idealist instruments, namely, by an exclusive analysis of the structure of thought and of consciousness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2263

It appears to me that Husserl’s philosophy was precisely an attempt to destroy idealism from within, an attempt with the means of consciousness to break through the wall of transcendental analysis, while at the same time trying to carry such an analysis as far as possible … he rebels against idealist thinking while attempting to break through the walls of idealism with purely idealist instruments, namely, by an exclusive analysis of the structure of thought and of consciousness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 559

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Adorno’s distinctive reading of Husserl’s project as an immanent attempt to overturn idealism from within.
• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s broader immanent critique method across the Frankfurt School corpus. — connects to: Husserl’s phenomenology was an absurd parody of Hegel’s idealism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2273
• DEEPTHINKING: The paradox of a philosophical project undermining itself with its own conceptual tools resists easy summary and rewards sustained reflection.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2263; Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 559