Adler sought to fuse Kant and Marx into a distinctly socialist culture

Evidence

Max Adler (1873-1937), an Austro-Marxist, was Professor of Sociology in Vienna. He attempted a synthesis of Kant and Marx, and proposed a strictly socialist form of culture and life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2879

Categorization

  • XREF: Relates to the recurring Kant-Marx synthesis attempts in the Frankfurt orbit; compare with Fromm’s and Marcuse’s divergent syntheses in earlier chapters. — connects to: Austro-Marxists read Marx as objective science and sought values in Kantian ethics — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2624; Marxist orthodoxy allied chiefly with traditional materialism over Kantianism

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