Adorno’s 1950s empirical method preserved the Institute’s Fromm-Horkheimer schema of economy, psyche, and culture

Evidence

Adorno was apparently concerned here with the concept developed by Fromm and Horkheimer in the early years of the Horkheimer period at the Institute of Social Research, in which the orthodox Marxist schema of superstructure and base was elaborated, under the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis, into an analysis of the relations between the economic process, the psyche and culture. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1933

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theory-and-empirics strategy of the Weimar worker study (ch17, ch26) returning after the war. — connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno’s collaboration fused two distinct materialist methodologies — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662; Methodological experience softened Adorno’s early hostility to American empirical techniques — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 671; Horkheimer and Adorno located capitalism’s core in the exchange principle — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1635 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno’s collaboration fused two distinct materialist methodologies #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 662
• Methodological experience softened Adorno’s early hostility to American empirical techniques #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 671
• Horkheimer and Adorno replaced Marxian capitalism critique with a rational domination of nature thesis #qualifies (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1369
• Horkheimer and Adorno located capitalism’s core in the exchange principle #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1635