Husserl stripped idealism of speculative excess, leaving tradition vulnerable to rupture

Evidence

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.' 66 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, 561

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: ‘the austere ally’ — how a philosophy’s own purism can hand its critics the exit they needed from an entire tradition.
• XREF: connects to: Husserl’s phenomenology reduced idealism to its most absurd, reductive form. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2273; Husserl’s phenomenology was an absurd parody of Hegel’s idealism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2273
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Husserl’s phenomenology reduced idealism to its most absurd, reductive form. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2273; Husserl’s phenomenology was an absurd parody of Hegel’s idealism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2273