Sartre’s phenomenology independently reproduced the Berkeley study’s findings

Evidence

Adorno had the irritating experience of finding that a European using European' methods could achieve as much as he had after several years' co-operation with a group using American’ methods. A footnote to the final chapter of The Authoritarian Personality observed: There is marked similarity between the syndrome which we have labeled the authoritarian personality and the portrait of the anti-Semite' by Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre's brilliant paper became available to us after all our data had been collected and analyzed. That his phenomenological portrait’ should resemble so closely, both in general structure and in numerous details, the syndrome which slowly emerged from our empirical observations and quantitative analysis, seems to us remarkable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1786

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Sartre-Adorno resemblance suggests a shared cultural climate producing the same character portrait — worth probing what phenomenological and empirical methods each selectively see.
• SHARE: For someone interested in Adorno or Sartre: the footnote admitting a philosopher’s intuition matched years of Berkeley empirical work.
• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s portrait of the anti-Semite independently matched the empirical authoritarian personality findings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1787

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s portrait of the anti-Semite independently matched the empirical authoritarian personality findings #corroborates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1787