Social-philosophical motives drove the Institute’s later openness to metaphysics.

Evidence

The appeal to an entirely other (ein ganz Anderes) than this world had primarily a social-philosophical impetus. It led finally to a more positive evaluation of certain metaphysical trends, because the empirical “whole is the untrue” (Adorno). — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 69

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s ‘the whole is the untrue’ and the negative-dialectics motif that later defines his mature philosophy. — connects to: Speculative philosophy emerges when thought renounces rigid partition and opens to nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 989; The Institut’s scholarly solidarity deliberately modeled an ideal future brotherly society — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 161

Broader Connections

• The Institut’s scholarly solidarity deliberately modeled an ideal future brotherly society #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 161
• Speculative philosophy emerges when thought renounces rigid partition and opens to nature #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 989