The Institute rejected intuitionist methods for breaking through to underlying reality.

Evidence

Horkheimer’s hostility to the unmediated use of intuition as a means to break through to an underlying level of reality, it might be added, was also extended to the similar efforts of phenomenologists such as Scheler and Husserl. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the Institute’s early stance against phenomenology, later crystallized in Adorno’s and Marcuse’s critiques of Husserl’s ‘transcendental Ego.’ — connects to: The Institute rejected both Second and Third International Marx orthodoxy as coagulated dogma — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 499

Broader Connections

• The Institute rejected both Second and Third International Marx orthodoxy as coagulated dogma #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 499