Adorno’s 1969 death ended the Institute-centered form of Critical Theory

Evidence

Adorno’s death was thus the end of a form of Critical Theory, no matter how disunified it had been, which had uniquely centred on the Institute of Social Research, as its outward form, and on an urge for discovery that had its roots in anti-bourgeois sentiment and in a sense of having a mission to criticize society. The fact that the younger members of the Institute all left Frankfurt within two or three years only underlined the significance of the break that Adorno’s death represented. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2748

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of how intellectual schools dissolve when their central figures and institutional anchor die — parallels the fate of other ‘schools’ whose identity was organizational rather than doctrinal. — connects to: Adorno’s thought begins from philosophy surviving its own death in an interregnum. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1208; SDS women disrupted Adorno’s 1969 lecture and pioneered the women’s movement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2674; Adorno’s death marked a decisive break in the Frankfurt School’s history — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 688
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2748

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s thought begins from philosophy surviving its own death in an interregnum. #responds-to (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1208