A 1942 seminar convened Horkheimer’s and Brecht’s circles for recorded discussions.

Evidence

On the seminar which took place in the summer of 1942, which on several occasions brought members of the Horkheimer circle and the Brecht circle together, see the minutes of the discussions and the editorial preface in Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 12, pp. 559-86. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 724

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier chapters on the Institute’s wartime New York exile and its contacts with Brecht; useful anchor for cross-referencing the Horkheimer circle’s American networks. — connects to: Horkheimer believed collaborative discussion was necessary to integrate manuscripts into his developing theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 338; Horkheimer first made thinking itself a form of resistance in 1942 — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 497
• QUESTION: What was actually argued across those tables between the Marxist theorists and Brecht’s circle, and did it leave any trace in the Institute’s later work?
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer believed collaborative discussion was necessary to integrate manuscripts into his developing theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 338; Horkheimer first made thinking itself a form of resistance in 1942 — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 497