The method that dissolves meaning into facticity cannot produce coherent final reports.

Evidence

The lack of people capable of doing the `write-up’ for studies, often remarked upon, cannot be explained by any lack of literary talent. A report of this sort is not a matter of mere literary practice, but demands complete comprehension of the research. The explanation lies, rather, in the aporia that a final report of this sort has to provide a kind of coherent significance, while the immanent significance of the method it is all based on is precisely the negation of coherent significance, a dissolution into mere facticity. Theory is therefore merely given lip-service, since the tendency immanent within the research does not have the acquisition of theory from facts as its goal at all. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 521

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Adorno’s aporia — the immanent significance of the method negates the coherent significance its report must supply — explains a chronic institutional failure without blaming individuals, which is exactly the kind of structural argument worth sitting with.
• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s critique of the culture industry and the ‘administered world’ — abstraction strips away the particular, the non-identical. — connects to: Empirical research method inherently negates the coherent significance a final report must claim. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2118; Humanity’s irreducible truth cannot be proven by scientific methods. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 176; Facticity is only ever graspable as already recovered and freely constructed — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 345
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Empirical research method inherently negates the coherent significance a final report must claim. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2118; Humanity’s irreducible truth cannot be proven by scientific methods. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 176; Facticity is only ever graspable as already recovered and freely constructed — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 345

Broader Connections

• Empirical research method inherently negates the coherent significance a final report must claim. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2118