Ontology and positivism are complementary variants of an anti-subject objectivism.
Evidence
Adorno was thus identifying a phenomenon in the realm of music that corresponded to the phenomenon he perceived in philosophy and sociology: ontology and positivism, ideological speculation and positivist empiricism, complemented one another and represented variants of an objectivism that was busily kicking what was already down: the subject, the individual. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 540
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s Habermas-Popper positivist dispute and Horkheimer’s critique of instrumental reason elsewhere in this book. — connects to: Adorno saw ontology and positivism as complementary variants of the same objectivism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2192; Empirical positivism and speculative idealism are mirror forms of anti-historicism.; Said’s anti-positivism secretly depends on positivist truth criteria — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 629 (+3 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: The pairing suggests philosophy’s two opposing camps are secretly one movement against the individual subject — a structural diagnosis worth sitting with.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno saw ontology and positivism as complementary variants of the same objectivism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2192; Empirical positivism and speculative idealism are mirror forms of anti-historicism.; Said’s anti-positivism secretly depends on positivist truth criteria — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 629 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno saw ontology and positivism as complementary variants of the same objectivism.
#corroborates(1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2192 - Said’s anti-positivism secretly depends on positivist truth criteria
#complicates(0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 629