Phenomenology’s method produces fetishes rather than the things themselves

Evidence

What philosophical phenomenology once dreamt of, like someone dreaming that he has woken up, its To the things themselves!' (Zu den Sachen’), could be achieved instead by a philosophy that does not hope to obtain such things' by the magical stroke of contemplating general essences’, but instead simultaneously takes account of their subjective and objective mediations, and does not allow itself to become dependent on the latent primacy of the method being usedwhich for the various schools of phenomenology always produced mere fetishes, self-made concepts, instead of the longed-for `things themselves’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 560

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains ‘Zu den Sachen’ and Adorno’s charge that methodological primacy manufactures self-made concepts.
• XREF: connects to: Web grabbing is better analyzed as commodity fetishism than voyeurism — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 329; Marx’s theory of fetishism depends on phenomenal forms being real, not imaginary — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 519; Phenomenology describes the feel of thought rather than its content — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 632 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Web grabbing is better analyzed as commodity fetishism than voyeurism — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 329; Marx’s theory of fetishism depends on phenomenal forms being real, not imaginary — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 519; Phenomenology describes the feel of thought rather than its content — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 632 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Marx’s theory of fetishism depends on phenomenal forms being real, not imaginary #complicates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 519