According to T. W. Adorno, any understanding of his philosophical programme hinges on a critical appreciation of his foundational works, “Against Epistemology: A Metacritique”, and “Negative Dialectics”. Both advance a developed criticism of Husserl’s phenomenology and its antecedent philosophical underpinnings. However, some key tenets of Adorno’s critique bear a striking similarity to positions advanced by Edith Stein over two decades earlier. Significantly, Stein’s understanding of intersubjectivity addresses the entrenched individualism which Adorno found so problematic in the work of Husserl and Heidegger. Re-engagement with Stein through Adorno (and Adorno through Stein) opens the potential for a dialogue which cogently urges a re-appraisal of the philosophical discourse within Europe, particularly during the inter-war period, calling attention to the systemic centralisation of narratives which have rendered absent, or designated as peripheral, key contributions. Stein’s work offers a series of refinements to Adornoian Philosophy, which consequentially represent an opportunity for the development of a new axis of critical thinking in terms of a “Phenomenology of Creativity”. This challenges some received orthodoxies, entrenched dogmas and inherited histories which have curtailed and restricted discursive practice across the field of study in relation to Culture and Identity, and heralds an innovative re-alignment of Frankfurt School Critical Theory in phenomenological terms.